8 Apr
2000
8 Apr
'00
1:10 p.m.
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...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York