Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain Truskett wrote in perl.perlfaq.workers :
> > Style note: I note the FAQ takes the correct approach and > > calls it 'the CPAN'. Contemporary usage has it as just 'CPAN'. > > I assume 'correct' is favoured over 'popular'? > > 'popular' has a well-known tendency to become 'correct'. Ask any > linguist :) I was wondering about how Iain was defining "correct" as well. Am I incorrect because I refer to the US television networks as ABC, CBS, and NBC instead of the ABC, the CBS, and the NBC? And what about the NASA? It seems to me that some such abbreviations are assumed to include the "the" and some aren't (and some are treated differently by different people). The only way to know is to see how people use them. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC
