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From: landauer@sun.uucp (Doug Landauer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Definition:  Kludge
Message-ID: <16881@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 20:00:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 16 20:00:26 1987
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In article <16769@sun.uucp> lyang@sun.UUCP (Larry Yang) writes:
>In article <1736@im4u.UUCP> suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler) writes:
>>Someone asked for a definition of "kludge," but I never saw the
>>real one.
>
>Here's a better question:  How do you pronounce the word?

It *always* rhymes with "stooge".  I don't know where you heard the
other pronunciations, but they are wrong and very rare.  I have never
heard any other pronunciation of "kludge" than the one that rhymes with
"stooge".  That's why I prefer the slightly less-common spelling
"kluge".  It's a new enough word that both spellings are currently
acceptable, and if enough of us do this, maybe we can affect which
spelling wins out in the end.

	-- Doug Landauer