Re: New York Times article on BBS's

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From: Life...
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:56

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sean@sdg.dra.com writes:

>The business section of the Sunday (July 19) New York Times had an article
>on BBS's.  Overall a pretty standard intro to BBS article.  But one thing
>caught my attention, the pronunciation of the word "sysop."   I've always
>heard "sysops" pronounced as "sis-ops", not "sigh-sops" as written in the
>article.  Is this a New York accent?, or have I been saying it wrong for
>the last twelve years?

I pronounce it "sis-ops", but I don't pronounce modem "mah-deem"
(modulator-demodulator). :-)

-- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)

///   ____   \\\  "Sorry, did I say something wrong?  Pardon me for
| |/ /    \ \| |   breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't even 
 \\_|\____/|_//    know why I bother to say it oh God I'm so depressed.
     \_)\\/        Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors.
       `-'         Life... don't talk to me about life...."

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