Robert Fisher wrote:
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 8:59 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
Yes but you do have to realise that many people DO wrie 2 cents as
.02c.
Bugger I would misspell a word in a thread about pedantry!
That is OK if you are only charging us .02cents (not 2 cents)
Maybe you've got it round the wrong way. Maybe this refers to each
participant's right to contribute an opinion, from having contributed
their due $0.02 / 2p. (Two pennies' worth / tupnees-worth / tupens-worth
/ tuppence-worth: preceded 'pence', I assume. So how old is that phrase?)
I support Rob et. al.'s pedantry call, incidentally, as without this
crucial character trait there is no way a command-line can be made to
carry out instructions :-)
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Rik
