[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: MPCF Draft/Discussion (MPlayer ContainerFormat)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:17:35AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Robert R. Wal writes:
>  > AFAIR it is plural from Latin ``egg''. Singular would be ``ovo'' if I'm not
>  > mistaken. But then again, I haven't ever been learning Latin.
> 
> Why not "ovo" then?  It's an egg but does not sound similar to ogg...

Because Robert doesn't know his Latin. :) Singular is ovum.

BTW, ova is also nice because you could have filenames like...

Your Favorite Anime.OVA ;)

Of course it would get confusing when .OVA was on the non-OVA
editions...

Rich