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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
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Subject: Re: literacy
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 10:04:40 EST
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In article <1900005@datacube.UUCP> stephen@datacube.UUCP writes:
>I agree. My particular choice is "mnemonic" misspelled as "pneumonic". Even
>worse, I hear it pronounced "noo-monic" instead of "nee-monic".

Wonderful!  Unfortunately, I've never seen this misspelling: however, it
does conjure up some wonderful ideas...  mnemonic plague, mnematic tyres,
etc.
								Kay.
-- 
"The only good thing that I can find to say about the idea of colonies
in space is that America could, at last, have a world to herself."
						-- Elisabeth Zyne
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