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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs ADA
Date: 2000/05/21
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In article <20000518063608.06047.00000004@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
  anthonygair@aol.comremoveme (ANTHONY GAIR) wrote:

> Did she really have her entire first name in capitals?

Certainly not, the name Ada (not actually her first name)
was thus spelled, which is why the language is thus spelled.
You got things the wrong way round

> I'll start writing Ada like ADA

Please don't! :-)

> if the USA promises to learn to talk and spell properly...

Thus speaks a pop-grammarian, who almost CERTAINLY has in mind
some rules that are in fact completely bogus :-) :-)



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