Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxh!hlexa!wjhe From: wjhe@hlexa.UUCP (Bill Hery) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: terminology survey Message-ID: <4392@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:34:43 EDT Article-I.D.: hlexa.4392 Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:34:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 07:46:38 EDT References: <2283@topaz.ARPA> <381@moncol.UUCP> <388@moncol.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 11 > In article <147@ukc.UUCP> mg@ukc.UUCP (M.W.Guy) writes: > > > RE: What to call the tractor-feed strips on line printer paper. > > > > The prevalent terms here are "paper meccano", nicely descriptive and > > "souflouce", with a delightful lack of either etymology or apparent meaning. > > Sprocket holes. NO--you've got it backwards. The sprocket holes are IN the paper meccano (or whatever it will be called). Even at Dunkin Donuts the donut holes aren't the same as the donuts (they're just made of the same stuff).