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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: Kludge and dictionaries
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 12:11:05 EST
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In MIT and Stanford's jargon manual (the ultimate authority in these
matters ... ), kludge is spelled both with and without the d, and yes,
they do say it comes from the German "kluge."  (Our copy of the manual is
rather old -- 1982.)

-- 
Melinda Shore 
University of Chicago Computation Center

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