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From: norman@oclsc.org (Norman Wilson)
Subject: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob'
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:52:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1499611931.26387.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> (raw)

Doug McIlroy:

  One curious fact is that from day one the word hase been pronounced glob,
  not globe. (By contrast, creat has been variously pronounced cree-at
  and create.)

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On the other hand, the UNIX Room pronunciation of `cron' rhymed with
bone, not with spawn.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON


             reply	other threads:[~2017-07-09 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-09 14:52 Norman Wilson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-07-09 12:26 Doug McIlroy
2017-07-09 13:12 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-07-09 21:29   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-07-09 21:44     ` ron minnich
2017-07-10  0:31       ` Chris Torek
2017-07-10  0:49         ` Bakul Shah
2017-07-10 20:16     ` Random832
2017-07-09 14:51 ` Steve Johnson
2017-07-09 16:38   ` ron minnich
2017-07-10 20:17 ` Random832
2017-07-07 16:55 Noel Chiappa
2017-07-07 17:37 ` Clem Cole
2017-07-07 17:54   ` ron minnich
2017-07-07 18:08     ` Clem Cole
2017-07-07 19:51   ` Paul Winalski
2017-07-07 23:00     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-07-08 17:03       ` Random832
2017-07-08 17:16         ` Arthur Krewat
2017-07-08 18:15           ` Paul Winalski
2017-07-08  3:04   ` Steve Johnson
2017-07-07 16:24 ron minnich
2017-07-07 16:46 ` Edouard KLEIN

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