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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: How to Pronounce 'MODEM'
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.231146.1273@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Jul23.134652.21734@mks.com> <rdippold.711915376@cancun> <BruwBn.A13@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:11:46 GMT
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- In article <BruwBn.A13@apollo.hp.com> holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook) writes:
- >
- >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...
- >
- Reminds me of the story about the Southern Woman who had all those children
- named Eenie, Meenie, Miny, and Edgar (Edgar?) (Yes, Edgar! She didn't want
- no mo')
-
- cjl
-