[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:

(snip)

>> My father was an architect and would pronounce those with a soft c as in 
>> specification.  Who'd have thunk that different trades have different 
>> pronunciations? :-)
 
> If you want to determine if someone works with networks/electronics then
> ask them to pronounce "coax" as a standalone word without any other context.

An old favorite test is to pronounce unionized, which is pronounced
differently be chemists (and other sciences).

And in computer science, thunk is a noun.

-- glen