Re: [Bodington-developers] Aaarggh!

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

talking of dots - have you noticed how non tech people, like newsreaders
and users (gag) in general emphasise the wrong parts of a domain name?

we (hopefully) say www DOTbbc DOTco DOTuk,

the great unwashed say:

wwwDOT bbcDOT coDOT uk

and those who are adept at dodging soap add "forward slash" to the above!

--=20
Alistair Young
Senior Software Engineer
UHI@Sabhal M=F2r Ostaig
Isle of Skye
Scotland

> Them's fightin' words!
>
> O.K. is an abbreviation of 'oll korrect', deriving from a fashion for
> silly abbreviations arising in Boston and New York in 1838 and 1839 and
> including things like K.G. for (k)no(w) go which didn't catch on quite
> as well.
>
> Use as an indication of approval started in 1841from 'Old Kinderhook' a
> nickname for Martin van Buren and adopted by his supporters in the
> 'O.K.[sic] Club', a Democratic club in New York. Kinderhook was the
> native town of van Buren. In effect O.K. became a non-religious synonym
> for amen.
>
> True acronyms such as SUN (the computer manufacturer) which are
> pronounced as if they are words are best presented without full stops
> because as words they are no longer abbreviations. However abbreviation=
s
> like I.B.M. (not an acronym unless you pronounce it ibum) ought to be
> written with full stops because they are are pronounced using the names
> of the letters. This is in effect the purpose of the full stop: it
> indicates that the preceding letter is to be pronounced using the name
> of the letter. S.U.N is pronounced ess-yoo-en but SUN is pronounced sun=
.
> Of course graphic designers don't like to put punctuation into logos an=
d
> then people copy that practice in plain text. OK implies a single
> syllable pronunciation like ock whereas the original spelling of the
> word was okey, later changed to okay.
>
> I wonder how long we can keep this thread going?
>
> References
> Read, Walker  American Speech 38:1,2(1963) & 39:1,2,4(1964)
>
>
> Andrew Booth wrote:
>
>>Eats, shoots - and leaves.
>>
>>BTW I've removed every occurrence of 'O.K.' from Bodington HEAD and
>>corrected all instances of 'occured'.
>>
>>Aggie
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bod...@li...
>>[mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf Of
>> Sean
>>Mehan
>>Sent: 07 April 2006 16:37
>>To: bod...@li...
>>Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Aaarggh!
>>
>>my pet beefs:
>>
>>
>>1) people who are always uncertain what to do about clauses of all
>>sorts - such that they always stick in hyphens - when they are writing.
>>We all know that hyphens are signs of intelligence - intelligence
>>being evidenced by your writing skills.
>>
>>2) Incorrect use of abbreviations http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/
>>sm00sm/?p=3D110
>>
>>
>>On 7 Apr 2006, at 16:25, Alistair Young wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>and the damn apostrophe as the plural - gaaaaaaargh!
>>>
>>>On 7 Apr 2006, at 16:04, Peter Crowther wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>From: Andrew Booth
>>>>>Have a look at one of the best books ever written - its
>>>>>author was very
>>>>>clear about the need for its creation as it's sorely needed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Ah, but that's only too variations, and there are to many versions of
>>>>to/too/two two count...
>>>>
>>>>		- Peter
>>>>
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