cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.X top.c

[David Malone]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:43:17AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Rong-En Fan <rafan at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   - s/jail id/jail ID/, acronyms should be in uppercase in general. Also,
> >     it is written this way in jail(8).

> ID is not an acronym, it is an abbreviation of "identifier".

This gets some discussion on the Grammar Girl blog. ID is slightly
unusual because it should probably be written "Id." and might be
said "Id" not "eye-dee". Thus it has aspects of an acronym (it looks
like one and is pronounced like one), but isn't actually formed
from initials.

(Of course, if something is an acronym or an initialism depends a
bit on what dialect you speak. For me, PXE was an initialism, and
I was rather suprised to discover that is was an acronym in Californian ;-)

	David.