From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!4.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 11:41:25 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: Awesome-Ada Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 12:41:25 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <9cf43e5mtjn4hi4l90s1vv5ogr8a16rmf1@4ax.com> References: <9cc33ea4-0164-4568-9295-c051342aed23@googlegroups.com> <3790db70-0f76-4f33-8ded-642dfeae9ca3@googlegroups.com> <8758dd5f-a3c4-4e76-b10e-36ca5f97043b@googlegroups.com> <6f0e18b5-7756-47a1-9fa8-9713c7c8daa0@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-rA7abi4LadtUt4IdyOq8j+ssF93iXG6wFVX8zXX5ahp+WWWCFHi29hxq08h2KCtRbPs0pwrREnmUNfT!uLQEW0coqYN76yWsFoLw5zgLkAYBnUzVW+Hj4wlYuBZ/5CPQA7s3hJH8Sis6CMOuiNNXKQRW X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2280 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:55226 Date: 2019-01-06T12:41:25-05:00 List-Id: On Sun, 06 Jan 2019 11:24:51 +0000, Simon Wright declaimed the following: >George Shapovalov writes: > >> On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 7:06:12 PM UTC+1, Olivier Henley wrote: >>> Isn't there an add at the top, and at the bottom of the page? >>> (I meant an add, in french Canadian an add is a 'publicité') >> In French French too (shortened to pub), except nobody would really >> associate it with "publicity" - hardly anybody knows any proper >> English here. Quebec is probably one of few places where you would >> translate like that :). > >I think the correct abbreviation in English is 'ad' Or the longer "advert" -- two syllables, less likely to be confused in speaking. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/