From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos vs. ECos Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010419103718.A27653@visi.com> References: <20010419101039.A27602@visi.com> <20010419171715.O1288@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00207.html On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:17:15PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:10:40AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > When present as the first word of a sentence, is the official > > spelling "eCos" or "ECos"? > > Hackers are well known for bending the rules of English grammer. > eg. you should of put the ? inside the quotes in your question.... At least one recent usage manual I saw (I can't remember which one, of course) shows the above as allowed usage in the context where the quotes are being used to denote a word or letter is being treated as a string or literal value rather than as a normal part of speach. IOW, the quotation marks are being used in the Computer Science sense of the word "quote" rather than in the literary sense that indicates the word(s) are being spoken by somebody other than the author. > Anyway, looking at sources.redhat.com/ecos, it should have a > lower case letter. And so it shall be... -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com