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A comment on XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix. Parent comment

Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by nailer on Sunday November 29, 2015 @05:45AM (#10644322)
Removing one and two letter words from acronyms is commonplace.
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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by krick on Sunday November 29, 2015 @07:11AM (#10644427)
Yeah, you mean prepositions, which "is" isn't. I don't really care, btw, just clarifying what parent (probably) tried to say.
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Re:XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix by nailer on Monday November 30, 2015 @08:58AM (#10649355)
> Yeah, you mean prepositions

No I don't. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Numerals_and_constitue... and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette

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