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| | | (...) Good luck.... I actually think the scuzzy came about through the actual letters: 'sc' is generally pronounced 'sck' [I can't think of a better way to type this...You know the pronunciation of scum or scrap (that's the best way to describe it)] (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) Small Computer. It's just a carryover of the hard c (k) sound: skuzzy rather than suzy. I use "scummy" and "scurvy" and the people at work always know I'm refering to SCSI. Nothing like mking a bad choice worse. ;-) Bruce (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Tobias Möller
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| | | | Um, am I the only one who says the actual *letters* (S-C-S-I) instead of a word? Tobias Möller (URL) GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GED d s: a--- C++ U? P? L E? W+++@ N++ o? K? w--- O? M++>$ V? PS PE? Y+ PGP? t++@ 5++ X++ R? tv++ b+ DI+ D? G e-- (...) (24 years ago, 27-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Yup. :) (24 years ago, 27-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Well, there may be other people, but they're wrong too. :) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | (...) I used to do this myself. But that was until I learned that one is supposed to say "scuzzy". Fredrik (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Shiri Dori
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| | | | (...) BTW... after talking to some people on the phone yesterday, I realized that I might be saying URL the wrong way... I say it U-R-L but some people say "url" (rhymes with girl)... Or do they? :-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) AFAIK, U-R-L ("Yoo Arr Ell") is the right way -- but people sometimes say "url" (like "duke of url" ;-) if they want to be cutesey or funny. I've never heard anyone say "url" unless they were ready to duck. :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —David Martineau
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| | | | | | (...) But could i be the only one to refer to HTML as "hatemail"? or .shtml as (pardon my language) sh*tmail? <whining.."but that's what they look like without vowels...> Regards, --Electro-- (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Jennifer L. Boger
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| | | | (...) ick! URL, no way, u-r-l :) I say both "scsi" and S-C-S-I... the one that gets to me is "edu" (ed-you) instead of e-d-u :) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | (...) Good, good, I'm not alone :-0 And Todd says U-R-L too! hehe... that makes the difference. ;-) FTR, I say e-d-u!! -Shiri (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) People here at Boston University say "edjoo". And the domain has been around since 1986, so it's likely they know. :) It's so much less work to say. And look at usenet: no one calls the comp hierarchy the see oh em pee hierarchy, for example. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | Hehe. Once I was speaking to someone about a URL, and instead of saying "double-you double-you double-you" or "triple dub" she said "wuh-wuh-wuh." ~Mark (...) around (...) "web" to (...) on "web" (...) dot org (...) double-yoo (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Jennifer L. Boger
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| | | | | (...) I can handle "dub-dub-dub", but that one's just bad. :) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Bad Choices —Frank Buiting
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| | | | (...) Heh, I hear that all the time... the dutch pronounciation of 'w' sounds like 'way' so www.lugnet.com is in dutch 'way-way-way-puhnt-l...puhnt-kom' Some dutchies forget that the english 'w' sounds like 'double-you' and automatically give an (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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