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From: rickheit@ulowell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
Message-ID: <1102@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 21:28:07 EST
Article-I.D.: ulowell.1102
Posted: Tue Feb 24 21:28:07 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 06:42:52 EST
References: <667@rtech.UUCP> <1074@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <486@sw1e.UUCP>
Reply-To: rickheit@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Erich Rickheit)
Organization: University of Lowell
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Summary: tty

< nonesense! There's no such thing as a line-eater! I'll show you.. >

In article <486@sw1e.UUCP> uusgta@sw1e.UUCP (uusgta) writes:
>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 think my favorite has to be 'tty', 'titty'. This, of course, sets you
for a whole load of good stuff--'gtty' (get titty) 'stty' (set titty)
ttyname (titty name), isatty (is a titty). If I'm in a good mood, I'm
typing on a vitty two twenty.

  Then, of course, just to be boring, 'getty' gets pronounced the same
way as the oil company. sigh.

  I get a few complaints about this of course, but when challenged,
I just say 'but, I like titties,' and they get real quiet.

   Signing off, rik hite at you lole

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