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But sometimes it is. :-)

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Rod
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On 10 Dec, 13:13, robgraham wrote: [...]

Pedantry.

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teddysnips

Also ties in with the kid/cod link since I've always known it as kidology.

MBQ

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Man at B&Q

I never realised the connection between kidding and cod but it could fit.

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Alang

plonk!

wants to

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Alang

That reminds me of the very first linguistics lecture I attended. Prof Searle came on stage & promptly started repeating "I love you" with varying degrees of intimation, accent on words and body language. We looked at each other wondering who this nutter was, but it was a memorable lesson in more ways than one!

Don.

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Don

The mailing list administrative system was listserv. The Bitnet lists were often, but not always, mirrored onto Usenet.

"The Internet" Hahn & Stout 1994 has two quite separate sections for Usenet (where it uses the word groups throughout) and for Mailing lists (called "lists"). Usenet had 150 pages of the book dedicated to it, mailing lists 30 and the WWW has 5. It suggests a number of public line mode browsers to use on the Web or as an alternative Mosaic "which has a number of advanced features such as graphics".

The list of Internet Access Providers for the UK was: Almac, Cix, Demon, Direct, Exnet, Pipex, RJB, UKnet and UKPC.

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Peter Parry

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

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Peter Parry

"Typo's" is perfectly valid as "Typo" is short for "Typographical Error".

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chunkyoldcortina

In article , jgharston writes

PROGRAMME for the TV, PROGRAM for a computer.

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Mike Tomlinson

Yeah, see! (thanks) ;-)

T i m

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T i m

That could well be it; "Cod is a little-used slang word meaning 'to hoax or take a rise out of', known since at least 1873. It was used in much the same way we now use the verb 'to kid'."

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The Medway Handyman

With a name like that shouldn't you be correct and call it kilometre?

Andy

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Andy Champ

typo's is a contraction, I think it should have an apostrophe just like MOT's.

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dennis

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Ian White saying something like:

That's common in Ireland.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Mike Tomlinson saying something like:

Hmm. Who first used the word to describe a set of software instructions? If it turns out the first user was Yankee, then ok, I can give them that, but just imagine if the British computing industry had achieved world domination - it would be a computer programme, iwt.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

Rowlocks. It's MOTs in my book - a plural.

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Clot

Oops.

At least it's on topic.

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Stephen Howard

Ahh, but the Irish have some delightfully quaint turns of phrase, so that's not altogether a reliable yardstick.

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The Wanderer

I believe we see MOT standing for 'Ministry Of Transport (test)' so if you provide that service then the plural things sounds ok to me (MOTs).

"We provide Ministry of Transport tests".

But then if we contact that?

T i m

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T i m

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