Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!flairvax!ellis From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: "Kludge or Kluge?" Message-ID: <168@flairvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 07:49:03 EDT Article-I.D.: flairvax.168 Posted: Fri Jul 15 07:49:03 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jul-83 20:04:25 EDT References: nsc.331 Lines: 15 The spelling "kludge" is going to reinforce the stereotypical image held by the rest of the world that "real programers ca'nt spell" [sic]. Spelled "kludge", the word would obviously rhyme with "fudge". Now everyone I've heard says "klooge", rhyming with "stooge". To my eye, a word spelt "kluge" would also be pronounced the same way. I seem to recall a rule in the 2nd grade about short vowels followed by 2 consonants, or something like that... It's not too late -- we may still be able to reverse the current tendency to misspell yet another word soon to be established in the English vocabulary. And they'll remember for centuries, it was computer people f**ked that one up...