From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 4 12:48:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16871 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:48:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16864 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05839; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:48:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd005808; Sun Oct 4 12:47:55 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08953; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:47:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810041947.MAA08953@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: OED (was: JOBOP RELIABILITY ENGINEER) To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:47:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: grog@lemis.com, tlambert@primenet.com, dberlin@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36171EAB.ACBB0D9B@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Oct 4, 98 01:07:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > That's how I spell it, frequently. Yes, I know it's not the > > > American spelling, but I was corrupted by an unabridged OED at > > > an early age... > > > > Was that a corrupted unabridged OED? > > No, Terry was adulterated by a corrupted OED. > > I find myself making the same spelling error occasionally. Must have > been something in the water (or the dictionary) at Weber State, huh? I read the OED back in 4th grade, at "Valley Elemetary School". This was before puberty, when my memory was fully eidetic, instead of selectively eidetic. I suppose if I swallowed a bunch of Piracetim and read a Webster's, I could "fix" my spelling, but it's really not worth the nosebleeds. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message