Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site warwick.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!kay From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: literacy Message-ID: <2340@flame.warwick.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 10:04:40 EST Article-I.D.: flame.2340 Posted: Sat Oct 26 10:04:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 06:18:45 EST References: <747@cyb-eng.UUCP> <1900005@datacube.UUCP> Reply-To: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK Lines: 13 Xpath: warwick flame flame ubu 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 ... mcvax!ukc!warwick!flame!kay