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From: doyle@genrad.UUCP (Rick Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.cooks
Subject: Re: Zap!
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 16:48:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  4 16:48:42 1985
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Summary: 

In article <817@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) writes:
>The use of "zap" to mean the verb "microwave" 
>
>But formalists are still using the verb "microwave", though I think
>it sounds cumbersome.  Then again, "any noun can be verbed."
>
>Any other ways to describe cooking with microwaves?
>-- 
>Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam
>
>37 22'50" N / 121 59'12" W	[ This is just me talking. ]

I "NUKE IT" when I microwave anything.I started it in school
and it really caught on there,but in the real world some 
people dgive me the strangest looks when I say it.

Rick Doyle