8 Apr
2000
8 Apr
'00
4:21 p.m.
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 Technoid(a)cheta.net wrote:
In
<10004090210.ZM3399(a)indy.dunnington.u-net.com>om>, on 04/08/00
at 11:31 PM, pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) said:
I have to agree with Pete on this one. I am an American and his
definitions are correct. Slew also used as a term of flight orientation
in Aircraft is all I can add.
Interesting! Will you provide a sample for illustration?
- don
On Apr 8,
10:13, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc(a)armigeron.com>
> > The project he's on is a complete
disaster as the manager went for a
> > Microsoft solution using slews of programs
> BTW, your apparent juxtaposition of one word
for its homomymn, and it
> happens all too often with this particular one. There's this term,
> pronounced "sloo" which is often misspelled "slew" but which
should be
> "slough" also pronounced "sloo" meaning a swamp or quagmire.
Eh? Perhaps American pronunciation differs, but
over here "slough"
(meaning swamp) is pronounced to rhyme with "plough" ('plow') :-)
Anyway, "slew" means "large number or quantity" [Oxford English
Dictionary], which I'm sure is what Sean means... On the other hand,
"slough" pronounced "sluff" means dead tissue that drops off from
living
flesh. Given the context...
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