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From: "Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" <frank.beard@navy.mil>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Subject: RE: MAC address with Win32 bindings.
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:58:29 -0500
Date: 2003-11-10T12:58:29-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.318.1068487149.25614.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Wright [mailto:simon@pushface.org]

> People in this newsgroup tend to get agitated when the language is
> spelt ADA instead of Ada (ADA => Americans with Disabilities Act or
    ^
    |
What does wheat have to do with the spelling of Ada?  ;-)

I remember when this was considered the incorrect spelling of "spelled".
IIRC, this became accepted because it was misspelled for so long, like
some other words in American English.

Can I dare dream of the day when ADA becomes an accepted spelling of Ada
because it is so commonly misspelled on a large scale because of it's
widespread usage? ;-)  Of course, if they can't get the name of the 
language right, their code may be a little suspect as well.

And no, I'm not advocating spelling it incorrectly.  I don't like it
either.

Frank



             reply	other threads:[~2003-11-10 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-10 17:58 Beard, Frank Randolph CIV [this message]
2003-11-10 18:08 ` MAC address with Win32 bindings Stephane Richard
2003-11-11  7:08 ` Simon Wright
2003-11-11  8:25 ` Preben Randhol
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-08 17:15 Mac " Alex Xela
2003-11-08 20:45 ` MAC " Larry Kilgallen
2003-11-08 21:37   ` Alex Xela
2003-11-09 12:10     ` Simon Wright
2003-11-09 13:48       ` chris
2003-11-09 22:43         ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-11-15 22:38         ` Fionn mac Cuimhaill
2003-11-12 13:49   ` JrZ
2003-11-09  3:27 ` Mac " Steve
2003-11-09  8:59   ` Alex Xela
2003-11-09 10:56   ` Alex Xela
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