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Article #121Re: How to Pronounce 'MODEM'
From: Alan R. Holbrook
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:18
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:18
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I worked for one of the largest datacomm manufacurers in the world, Racal Milgo (earlier Milgo Electronics and later Racal Datacom) at one time, and was assured by people there that it was pronounced [long 'o'] [short 'e']. Why? Because, sonny, all you have to do is look around and you'll see we got mo' o' dem den we got anyt'in' else... (with apologies to those who have to pay to download this drivel...)
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!netnews From: holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook) Subject: Re: How to Pronounce 'MODEM' Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News) Message-ID: <BruwBn.A13@apollo.hp.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:18:58 GMT References: <mtpins.711668470@icaen.uiowa.edu> <14kv1kINNg06@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Jul23.041525.5250@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul23.134652.21734@mks.com> <rdippold.711915376@cancun> Nntp-Posting-Host: jurgen.ch.apollo.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 8