* [ECOS] eCos vs. ECos
@ 2001-04-19 8:09 Grant Edwards
2001-04-19 8:12 ` Gary Thomas
2001-04-19 8:17 ` Andrew Lunn
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2001-04-19 8:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ecos-discuss
When present as the first word of a sentence, is the official
spelling "eCos" or "ECos"?
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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* RE: [ECOS] eCos vs. ECos
2001-04-19 8:09 [ECOS] eCos vs. ECos Grant Edwards
@ 2001-04-19 8:12 ` Gary Thomas
2001-04-19 8:17 ` Andrew Lunn
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From: Gary Thomas @ 2001-04-19 8:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Grant Edwards; +Cc: ecos-discuss
On 19-Apr-2001 Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> When present as the first word of a sentence, is the official
> spelling "eCos" or "ECos"?
I always use "eCos", even if the word processors (etc) complain.
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* Re: [ECOS] eCos vs. ECos
2001-04-19 8:09 [ECOS] eCos vs. ECos Grant Edwards
2001-04-19 8:12 ` Gary Thomas
@ 2001-04-19 8:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2001-04-19 8:36 ` Grant Edwards
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From: Andrew Lunn @ 2001-04-19 8:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Grant Edwards; +Cc: ecos-discuss
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....
Anyway, looking at sources.redhat.com/ecos, it should have a lower
case letter.
Andrew
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2001-04-19 8:17 ` Andrew Lunn
@ 2001-04-19 8:36 ` Grant Edwards
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2001-04-19 8:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ecos-discuss
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
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