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From: kehoe@reed.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Gender of Macintoshes?
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Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 18:59:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  9 18:59:14 1986
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In Gaelic, the O' prefix on a name means "son of",
e.g. O'Dhomnaill, O'Leary, and the ni prefix, with
an accent over the i, means "daughter of", e.g.
Triona ni'Dhomnaill.

In Scottish, the "Mac" prefix means "son of".  What
is the Scottish "daughter of" prefix?  And does this
mean that all Macintosh computers are male?  MacWrite,
MacPaint, MacTerminal, etc. -- are those all male too?

BTW, "ni" is pronounced "nich".

Also, there's a name for words that are spelled like
"through" and "though" and "doughnut" -- with extra
"ugh"s.  Anyone know?
-- 
"Don't play pool, don't play softball, how do you meet anyone?"
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Dave Kehoe    (503) 230-9454    ...tektronix!reed!kehoe