On 27/08/15 06:59, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
On 26/08/2015 19:54, Gavin Flower wrote:
On 27/08/15 00:03, Vincent de Phily wrote:
On Wednesday 26 August 2015 10:27:04 Gavin Flower wrote:
Actually I would suggest standardising on singular names, not JUST
because that this the standard I prefer!  :-)

But (also) because:

   1. Singular words tend to be shorter

   2. plurals are more ambiguous wrt spelling

   3. there other good reasons, that I've forgotten for now :-(
      (but I remember having them!!!)
Oh, so you name your tables 'fish' and 'crow' instead of 'school' and
'murder' ? Such wasted opportunities :p

???
A school of fish and a murder of crows... wonderfully evocative
collective nouns.

Ray.


Hmm...

Reminds me about a story I was told where a programmer had used names of his favourite footballers as labels in an assembler program! :-)


-Gavin



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