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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] is nickle plan9 acceptable?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:02:04 +0000
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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