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From: jsloan@wright.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
Message-ID: <122@wright.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 07:12:34 EST
Article-I.D.: wright.122
Posted: Tue Feb 24 07:12:34 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 01:15:24 EST
References: <486@sw1e.UUCP>
Organization: Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435
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in article <486@sw1e.UUCP>, uusgta@sw1e.UUCP (uusgta) says:
> In article <667@rtech.UUCP>, page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>> How do you say 'vi'?  'rn'?  'Usenet'?  'rm'?  'mv'?  Should spaf (how do
>> you say 'gatech'? 'cbosgd'?) put out a Usenet Guide to Pronunciation?
> Any other strange ones out there?

I recall hearing a systems engineer at an IBM presentation (this was
in my previous incarnation as an systems programmer on large IBM
mainframes) pronounce re-IPL (Initial Program Load... boot to all
the rest of us) as "ripple". As in, "for this change to take effect,
you have to ripple the machine". Took me a while to figure out what the
**** he was talking about.
-- 
John Sloan  CSNET: jsloan@CS.Wright.EDU UUCP: ...!cbosgd!wright!jsloan
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