29 Mar
2005
29 Mar
'05
11:13 p.m.
On 30/03/2005, at 11:57 AM, Tom Jennings wrote:
I know this could be the start of YET ANOTHER thread
"Oh I think
it's older than that..." but to avoid that, let's raise the
standard from opinion/hearsay to printed word.
Well kludge has been in common use in Queensland (Australia) since at
least the early 1900s as the name of an outside toilet. This probably
pre-dates any computing reference :-)
In Queensland it's pronounced to rhyme with judge,
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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