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Re: tomayto or tomahto? - rabbit

1997-01-13 16:31:11
era eriksson <reriksso(_at_)cc(_dot_)helsinki(_dot_)fi> wrote:
:Hoping to put an end to this silly thread -- replies by mail, please.

Whale, just this one more, ok?  (Translation: "Let ME have the last
word!  ME, ME, ME!")

:                                              In English, c is
:pronounced soft only before front vowels,

Actually, I would argue more from the concept that "procmail" is a
compound word, each component of which should be pronounced as it
would be pronounced separately.

I browsed through a spelling dictionary (one of the rare times they're
actually useful) to find all its English words ending in [aeiou]c.
Almost all of those ended in ic, and most of _those_ ended in tic.
But I did find two words ending in oc:

  bloc
  havoc

proc just fits right in, wouldn't you say?

(No, wait, don't answer that.  Let's end this, now that I've had my
say. :)

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