Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!srhqla!demott!kdq
From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Okay, I give up. What is the real story?
Keywords: xyzzy
Message-ID: <1003@demott.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 90 20:26:19 GMT
References: <mferrare.658973563@adelphi.ua.oz.au>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
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In article <mferrare.658973563@adelphi.ua.oz.au> mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Ferraretto) writes:
>kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>
>>In article <1990Nov16.060233.4305@nntp-server.caltech.edu> terry@wag.caltech.edu (Terry R. Coley) writes:
>>>a road in the middle of the desert named "xyzzy" (or was it actually 
>>>"xyzzx"?).  Anyone know which came first - the Adventure magic
>
>>    Actually, it's Zzyzx, what was supposedly (according to the guy who
>
>So how do you pronounce it?


    Same way as the guy who made it up.  8-{)}.  Two syllables, ('i' as in is)
zi-ziks (zi is pronounced like "is", backwards).


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