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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kfu3am$mjk$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 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.
> 

Thunk?  Isn't that the sound of a head crashing on a 4331?  :-)

bill

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