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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
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   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...