From: Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com>
Subject: Re: sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus?
Date: 11 Oct 1996 16:41:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r4pw2pmdwp.fsf@cognex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 11 Oct 1996 12:43:53 +0200
>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>> There are only two problems with Quinoa.... First of all, it's not a
>> fruit, it's a grain.
LMI> Who are we to quibble?
>> Secondly, the pronunciation is so odd that only
>> those truly interested in esoterica will be able to pronounce it
>> properly (Think Keen-wah, accent on the first syllable).
LMI> I think that's a feature, not a bug. :-)
If you'd like a difficult-to-pronounce, okay-if-not-quiet-a-fruit, Q-name, I
can do one better: Quincunx Gnus.
\'kwin-,k*n(k)s : an arrangement of five plant parts.
It's got the "Gnus 5" base covered, too. :-)
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-11 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-09 9:51 Wesley.Hardaker
1996-10-09 9:56 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1996-10-09 10:25 ` Ariel Scolnicov
1996-10-09 11:35 ` Hans de Graaff
1996-10-10 7:18 ` Wesley.Hardaker
1996-10-10 14:12 ` Brent B. Powers
1996-10-11 10:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-11 12:34 ` qgnus pronounciation Andy Eskilsson
1996-10-11 20:41 ` Michael R Cook [this message]
1996-10-11 19:08 ` sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus? Roderick Schertler
1996-10-10 16:07 ` Mats Löfdahl
1996-10-10 16:49 ` C. R. Oldham
1996-10-11 7:03 ` Qcumber Andy Eskilsson
1996-10-11 6:49 ` sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus? Wesley.Hardaker
1996-10-11 16:00 ` 8 bits in citations (Was: Re: sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus?) Mats Löfdahl
1996-10-11 18:31 ` Colin Rafferty
1996-10-12 18:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-14 17:58 ` Mats Löfdahl
1996-10-14 18:23 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-14 20:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-17 22:42 ` Mats Löfdahl
1996-10-19 18:30 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
1996-10-11 6:50 ` sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus? Wesley.Hardaker
1996-10-13 2:11 Brent B. Powers
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