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From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
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To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
Cc: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>,
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Subject: Re: Pronunciations
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Brian Beattie wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
> 
> >
> > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> >
> 
> twiddle

A twiddle is the little spinning ascii icon {/-\|/-...}, like the one that the
boot loader uses. At least I think its the boot loader, haven't had to reboot in
a while. :)


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