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- From: holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook)
- Subject: Re: How to Pronounce 'MODEM'
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:18:58 GMT
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- I worked for one of the largest datacomm manufacurers in the world,
- Racal Milgo (earlier Milgo Electronics and later Racal Datacom) at one
- time, and was assured by people there that it was pronounced [long 'o']
- [short 'e']. Why? Because, sonny, all you have to do is look around
- and you'll see we got mo' o' dem den we got anyt'in' else...
-
- (with apologies to those who have to pay to download this drivel...)
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