cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) (10/08/85)
/* > > I'm not entirely sure I agree with you about adding construx to the > > language tho. I once saw this thruout a bunch of sources: > > > I'm quite sure I disagree with the constructs you appear to be adding to > the language --- the English language. > > #ifdef cottrell > #define construx constructs > #define tho though > #define thruout throughout > #endif > > Ed Nather > Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin > {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather > nather@astro.UTEXAS.EDU Very good Ed! I hope you don't live on a `No Thru Street' :-) I just like the letter x. Any objexions? Fair Enuf? jim cottrell@nbs P.S. How many ways can you pronounce `ough'? Thought, though, through, bough, enough, any more? */ ------
kenny@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/10/85)
/* Written 6:23 pm Oct 7, 1985 by cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA in uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */ P.S. How many ways can you pronounce `ough'? Thought, though, through, bough, enough, any more? /* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */ Cough, cough!
jgd@uwmcsd1.UUCP (John G Dobnick) (10/13/85)
[Just who was that masked line-eater, anyway?] > /* Written 6:23 pm Oct 7, 1985 by cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA in uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */ > P.S. How many ways can you pronounce `ough'? > Thought, though, through, bough, enough, any more? > /* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */ > > Cough, cough! I fought through this once before. It is a really tough task to thoroughly answer this question. I read somewhere that there were about 25 distinct pronunciations of this particular letter sequence. (Warning: I am depending upon a VERY old memory here; the actual number may be somewhat less.) -- -- John G Dobnick Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (...ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jgd)