Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: American routs and Canadian roo Message-ID: <1400002@ccvaxa> Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 21:07:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.1400002 Posted: Tue Jan 7 21:07:00 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jan-86 02:53:33 EST References: <2701@sunybcs.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:sunybcs.UUCP:2701:ccvaxa:1400002:000:483 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!wombat Jan 7 20:07:00 1986 /* Written 1:15 pm Jan 4, 1986 by colonel@sunybcs.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.nlang */ Eh? There are patches on the map where "rowt" is entrenched, but the standard in the U.S. is still "root." /* End of text from ccvaxa:net.nlang */ Are you implying that Illinois is a "patch"? You overestimate the standardness of "root." "When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all." Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand* Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat