Simply "Intel decided". using 'have', 'has', 'has been', 'have been' can almost always be dropped entirely or replaced with 'is', 'was', 'were' depending on tense.
------------ Scott Doctor scott at scottdoctor.com ------------------ On 12/4/2015 9:13 AM, Simon Slavin wrote: > On 4 Dec 2015, at 3:59pm, Jay Kreibich <jay at kreibi.ch> wrote: > >> It is actually in the ISO standard that the proper pronunciation is ?ess cue >> ell?. It became ?sequel? in some circles, mostly thanks to Microsoft. > Unfortunately I work as a contractor and if I can pick up the client's > pronunciation and copy it, the client likes me more. So I flip back and > forth between 'an ess cue ell' and 'a sequel'. My opinion on that, and lots > of other computer-related terms, depends on who's paying me that month. > > The worst one is the collective corporation. Is it "Intel has decided" or > "Intel have decided" ? Whichever one I write for whichever side of the > Atlantic, I get told off for getting it wrong. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > >
