On 8 Jun 2017 08:49 -0400, from ches at cheswick.com (William Cheswick):
> When he tests a microphone, Don Knuth says:
> 
> “Testing zero, one, two.”

As opposed to Niklaus Wirth, who presumably would rather say:

"Testing lower bound, lower bound plus one, lower bound plus two."

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