UPS, I Did It Again Posted Wed, 14 Mar 2007

I think it's interesting that we pronounce some acronyms/initialisms but spell out others -- I've ever reflected on this before.

For example, I think it's funny that we choose not to pronounce the initialism for Uninterruptible Power Supplies the way we pronounce the name of the reason we need them.

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Hey Mako,

another subject I'm leading (Network UPS Tools).

As a side note, I'm working on bridging NUT to HAL in order to get out of the box support for USB ones:
you plug your ooops, et voila, you're protected.
And you get the added value of using gnome-power-mgr and the like...

I hope you have a NUT friendly unit (MGE is the only one at the moment), but check (and relay maybe) the current call to users:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-March/002402.html

bye fellow
Posted by Arnaud Quette at Wed Mar 14 05:32:19 2007
That's hysterical.  :)
Posted by will guaraldi at Wed Mar 14 12:49:53 2007
It's my understanding that you pronounce whatever has the least number of syllables, and if there's a tie you pronounce the full phrase.  Which is why people refer to Los Angeles by its initials but not in the case of New York.
Posted by Carlos Arenas at Wed Mar 14 21:22:51 2007

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