In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 10/06/2006
at 04:22 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Since it's an acronym, not a word, we get to make up whatever rules
>we want for pluralization.
Pluralization isn't the issue; obfuscation is. If you want to refer
to, e.g., MIPSs, MIPSes, MIPSen, that might look silly but at least it
would be clear. Droping the S that stands for seconds just confuses
people.
>OBVIOUSLY, MIPS is singluar,
But MIP is just peculiar.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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