Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff Daiell) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Acronyms. Is is `1 MIP' or `1 MIPS'? Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 16:15:42 GMT References: <6033@helios.TAMU.EDU> <111360@linus.mitre.org> <305@spam.ua.oz> Organization: FICC [but opinions my own!] Lines: 22 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff Daiell) writes: > > The Declaration of Independence uses "united States of America". > > However, as they were the *only* States in the Americas at the time, > > perhaps you should say, "the several States", as the Federal > > Constitution does. Or "the States of the Union". > > Things were much simpler back home in the Commonwealth of Australia. > -- How so? Australia is a federal system; surely you didn't say, "Our Commonwealth's constituent States is very diverse" or "The States of the Commonwealth was arguing last year". I hope not, anyway; that sounds like a linguistic burden I'm not sure I Canberrap to. Jeff -- Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum