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- From: rskinner@mipos2.intel.com (Rod Skinner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Plural of Pentium (was Re: Why not INTEL586?)
- Message-ID: <BxC3xv.6Kr@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 07:10:42 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.155632.28732@microware.com> <BxBnty.4Gn@inews.Intel.COM>
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- In article <BxBnty.4Gn@inews.Intel.COM> dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy) writes:
- >I'm not speaking for Intel in any official manner whatsoever.
- >
- >James Jones (jejones@microware.com) wrote:
- >> steibel@venus.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel) writes:
- >>> Therefore, with the Pentium increasing performance through the roof,
- >>> people will be buying an awful lot of Pentiums.
- >
- >> Or is that Pentia? Pentiae? Assistance from people who took some Latin
- >> would be much appreciated. :-)
- >
- >
- > I just came across this pluralized-Pentium(tm) question earlier
- >today. Basically I think it boils down to this: Pentium is not a
- >Latin word. If anything, it's an English word. It should therefore
- >follow standard English pluralization rules.
- >
- > One Pentium. Two Pentiums.
-
- There is only one way to describe the Pentium (tm) processor. If you
- want the plural form...it is Pentium processors. ALL trademarks are
- adjectives and therefore only have ONE form. The noun that the
- trademark describes can be either singular or plural as you would
- normally do.
-
- Pentium (tm) CPUs
- Pentium (tm) microprocessors
-
-
-
- >
- >
- >--
- >| D. J. McCarthy The moving walkway is now ending;
- >| dmccart@gomez.intel.com please look down.
- >| ...!intelhf!mipos3!modl01!dmccart
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-
- Rod Skinner I speak for myself only.
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