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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, andreas@rammhold.de,
	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use sha256 for hashes in the release process
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:10:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53cd2979-e0b1-3717-35cc-91be5b2ca0c3@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1plp10l.fsf@igel.home>

On 2020-10-26 9:31 a.m., Andreas Schwab wrote:
> But SHA is an abbreviation, so I would expect ES EITCH EI.

More precisely, it is an acronym.  And acronyms are pronounced as a word
all the time.  Since it's much easier to say "shaw" than "s-h-a", I
presume most people say "shaw" (that's how I've always heard it anyway).

Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-26  1:33 andreas
2020-10-26  2:24 ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-26  3:04   ` andreas
2020-10-26  7:46   ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-26 12:53     ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-26 13:31       ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-26 14:10         ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2020-10-26 14:20           ` Andreas Schwab

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