[Info-vax] Ada on VMS, was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Carl Friedberg]

Lead (SD) is pronounced like LEED, not LED (long E). There's a deep
underground science facility there.

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 4:59 AM, Phillip Helbig undress to reply via
Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> In article <pdoor4$r2t$1 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:
>
> > Well, there are some that conciders giving to (any) church
> > as beeing "mislead"... :-)
>
> Just to be clear, "lead", the verb, pronounced LEED, has the past tense
> "led", pronounced "LED", just like the heavy metal lead.  So, if at all,
> they were misled.
>
> There is a mining town called Lead.  They had a beauty contest.  Someone
> pointed out that the winner would be Miss Lead.  :-)
>
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