[78-L] PRONUNCIATION QUESTIONS

[David Lennick]

On 7/19/2014 6:21 PM, David Breneman wrote:
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> Von: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid>
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>> And hard on most early broadcasts. Hey, we still put an "f" in Lieutenant.
>> But nobody seems to want to get rid of the non-existent "r" in Colonel.
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> I once had a fellow who knew very little about computers try to
> explain to me that "The program that runs the computer is called
> the Colonel, because it orders the other programs what to do."
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> (For those who don't know, the core process is called the KERNEL
> because other programs operate in "shells" around it.)
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Man, that's corny!

dl