16 Jul
2009
16 Jul
'09
12:12 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Tony Duell<ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
F-sick is occasionally heard here.
fsck
(pronounced fisk) is fun too... it almost sounds like a word..
"That fsck'ing volume got corrupted again."
Fuss-Chuck here :-) The one that really annoys me is to areviate
'motherboard' as 'MoBo' and
pronounce it 'Mow-Bow'.
'puter ("pewter"), or worse yet, "pooter" (the redneck
pronunciation)
as a diminutive/dismissive term for "*COM*puter". Bleah!
-ethan