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From: janne@enea.se (Jan Carlsson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What song contains the phrase "WYSIWYG"?
Message-ID: <591@enea.se>
Date: 27 Dec 89 15:07:59 GMT
References: <351@fwi.uva.nl>
Reply-To: janne@helios.se (Jan Carlsson)
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In article <351@fwi.uva.nl> freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) writes:
>I know that WYSIWYG means that what you see on the screen is what
>you'll get on paper when you print it.  I know that it is an
>abbreviation of the phrase "what you see is what you get".  I know (?)
>that this phrase comes from some popular song.
>
>My question is: from which song did the phrase "what you see is what
>you get" come?

Glen Goldsmith (a rather unknown British(?) singer) did a song with this
title one or two years ago.