[plug] KDE en_GB: 'distro'

Brian Tombleson brian at paradigmit.com.au
Tue Mar 12 00:40:39 WST 2002


From: "John Knight" <anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com>
> I remembered what I was going to ask now, this probably won't come up,
it's
> not even a real word anyway, but here goes! When it comes to the plural of
> 'distro', what do u guys think it should be? The most common ones I've
seen
> are distros, distroes, and distro's. The last obviously doesn't make
sense,
> what do you guys think we should settle on?

Err .. the last one might make sense in the use of an apostrophe for
contraction: distr[ibuti]o[n]s... however it would be more technically
correct to use distr'o's .. which would never be acceptable under the common
usage rules.
If inclusion is considered, I would vote for "distros" by common usage, even
though "distroes" is correct use of pluralisation following a vowel.

Overall though, I would vote to exclude it as 'not a word'.

- Brian.




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