[78-L] PRONUNCIATION QUESTIONS^

[Julian Vein]

On 19/07/14 23:24, David Lennick wrote:
> On 7/19/2014 6:21 PM, David Breneman wrote:
>>
>> Von: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid>
>>
>>> 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.
>> 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."
>>
>> (For those who don't know, the core process is called the KERNEL
>> because other programs operate in "shells" around it.)
>>
>>
> Man, that's corny!
>
> dl
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That's it in a nutshell!

      Julian Vein