29 Mar
2005
29 Mar
'05
8:51 p.m.
> The French word for "bell" is
"cloche" which is pronounced not
> un-similarly to kludge.
Well, "cloche" is lacking the plosive, but perhaps it's not too
unlikely a distortion.
Interesting. I'd always assumed it was a
corruption of some form of
the German word 'kluge' (clever).
The Jargon File entry for `kludge' seems to derive it from a Scots
word, though it does include a nod towards the German. See
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kludge.html (and kluge.html,
which contains not only some description of `kluge' but a good deal of
interesting historical material - amusingly, I somehow managed to pick
up both the -d- spelling and the /klooj/ pronunciation, to the point
that anything else looks/sounds wrong to me).
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