From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is nickle plan9 acceptable?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:02:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877kq73u5z.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201250312.g0P3C3518456@ducky.net>
mike@ducky.net (Mike Haertel) writes:
> >I could have sworn the coin is called a 'nickel'.
>
> See http://nickle.org/name.html for the official explanation.
> They claim that certain published dictionaries allow the -le.
Well, the OED and all the online dictionaries I can trivially check
know nothing of it. The jargon file does, however contain it. I
guess that means:
1) Eric Raymond is a dork M-DEL sometimes rather clueless person.
2) The Hackers Dictionary is, well, I guess, a "published dictionary".
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-25 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-25 2:26 rob pike
2002-01-25 3:12 ` Mike Haertel
2002-01-25 10:02 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2002-01-25 3:12 ` Quinn Dunkan
2002-01-25 10:01 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-01-25 10:01 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-01-25 12:32 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-28 11:12 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-29 2:00 okamoto
2002-01-29 6:14 ` skipt
2002-01-29 11:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-27 11:55 erik quanstrom
2002-01-27 14:43 ` Matt H
2002-01-28 11:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 17:16 George Michaelson
2002-01-25 12:35 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-28 4:45 ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2002-01-28 16:55 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 3:20 David Gordon Hogan
2002-01-25 12:33 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 17:01 ` Dave Lukes
2002-01-25 2:28 rob pike
2002-01-25 2:23 Russ Cox
2002-01-25 10:02 ` ozan s yigit
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