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- From: visbrown@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL)
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- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <Bs0yL5.83H@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 02:53:00 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.080858.145@sdg.dra.com>
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- In article <1992Jul20.080858.145@sdg.dra.com>, sean@sdg.dra.com writes...
- >The business section of the Sunday (July 19) New York Times had an article
- >on BBS's. Overall a pretty standard intro to BBS article. But one thing
- >caught my attention, the pronunciation of the word "sysop." I've always
- >heard "sysops" pronounced as "sis-ops", not "sigh-sops" as written in the
- >article. Is this a New York accent?, or have I been saying it wrong for
- >the last twelve years?
- >--
- >Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
- >Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
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- Apparently, it is. I never ran into it until I move to NY from the
- Midwest myself. Considering the origin of the term, "sis-op" makes more
- sense.
-
- Bill Brown
-