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From: badvoc@sylph.u-net.com (Badvoc)
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 13 Jun 1997 12:13:27 -0000
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Jonathan Bodarky <jbodarky@ncofsi.com> writes:

>    Relax, everyone.  What if someone pronounces "su" as "soo", "vi" and
>"vye" ?  Personally, I pronounce say "remove" when I am referring to
>"rm" and "copy" when I refer to "cp".

I though everyone pronounced "vi" as "vye" and "cp" as "copy".

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