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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Randomised Instruction Set Computer
Keywords: viruses
Message-ID: <61928@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 8 Jun 90 17:04:49 GMT
References: <3131@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <14060@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <3199@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
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Reply-To: rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
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In article <3199@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
(Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
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| In article <14060@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, barry@PRC.Unisys.COM writes:
| > >The trouble with that was that once you managed to jemmy (sic) that
| 						      ^^^^^^^^^^^
| I wrote "jemmy".  Barry Traylor, apparently without checking a dictionary,
| added "(sic)".  here we go:
| 	jemmy (N,Count,^tool,=crowbar) A *jemmy* is a heavy metal bar...
|	used in British English...
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Truly an international network... ;-}  ;-}

U.S. dictionaries list *only* the spelling "jimmy" (from the proper name
"Jimmy", slang for a burglar) for "a short crowbar", or "to break open".
So Barry might have sic'd you even if he *did* check a dictionary!

-Rob

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