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From: ems@apple.UUCP (Mike Smith)
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Subject: Re: [Nn][Ee][Ww][Ss]
Message-ID: <853@apple.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 22:44:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.853
Posted: Thu May 28 22:44:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 10:05:32 EDT
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Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: overloading registration kitsch
Summary: Ne wiss or Nu wizz ...

In article <19025@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> Mr. Morin, I thank you for your eminently sensible proposal, but I see
> (or rather, hear) one problem with it: there is no aural case distinction.
[...]
> 
> Fortunately, some friends of mine came up with a solution during a
> party in Washington, D.C. during the last USENIX Conference. 
> [...] Anyway, it was decided that the name of
> Sun's window system really has two syllables, and is pronounced:
> 
> 	NEE wiss
> or
> 	NEE wuss
> 
hmmm, and here I thought you were going to say Nu Wizz  ... :-) 

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