| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 724.1 | | COOKIE::DEVINE | Bob Devine, CXN | Wed Sep 27 1989 23:27 | 1 |
| There's also "residuum".
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| 724.2 | uum | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Wed Sep 27 1989 23:40 | 9 |
| Interesting too ...
vacuum is pronounced vac-youm
whereas continuum is pronounced contin-you-um
so maybe should be spelled contin�um to indicate that the letters
should be pronounced individually
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| 724.3 | I know I'll never find another 'u'. | PROXY::CANTOR | Hide, Cecil, here comes Uncle Captain! | Thu Sep 28 1989 07:37 | 7 |
| Re .2
Shouldn't the mark be on the second vowel of the pair?
I've heard 'vacuum' pronounced as vac-you-um, too.
Dave C.
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| 724.4 | When I walk through that door 'u''ll be my guide | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Fri Sep 29 1989 21:40 | 16 |
| re .3
I suppose it should really, but I always treat the umlaut as meaning
"for this vowel pair, pronounce them separately", so it then doesn't
matter which it goes on.
Anyway, I prefer the look of
contin�um
to
continu�m
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| 724.5 | Dieresis, not umlaut | MINAR::BISHOP | | Fri Sep 29 1989 23:45 | 10 |
| Umlaut is used to front a back vowel (o to �, u to �), or
to back a front vowel (i to �). German and Turkish use
umlaut (to chose only two examples).
Dieresis is used to cause two vowels in sequence to be
pronounces as two syllables, rather than as a diphthong
(e.g. na�ve). English and French (among others) use
dieresis.
-John Bishop
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| 724.6 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Mon Oct 02 1989 17:34 | 8 |
| picky, picky .....
I was just referring to the mark, not the process, and therefore
feel that I could call the mark fred if that described it. So for
those circumstances, of just describing the mark, umlaut or dieresis
(or should that be di�resis ?) should be just fine.
Stuart
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| 724.7 | lituum | FDCV06::BEAIRSTO | | Wed Oct 04 1989 20:19 | 3 |
| ...from the last page of 'The Atlantic' a few months back. I don't have
the magazine or an unabridged dictionary handy now, but as I recall it
was a magic wand.
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| 724.8 | FWIW | CALS::GELINEAU | | Mon Oct 18 1993 10:16 | 13 |
|
FWIW,
As a physics major I pronounced 'vacuum' as vac-u-um (when referring
to space devoid of matter) but as vak-yoom (when referring to the
machine).
Don't know why - maybe transference from my professors caused the
former pronunciation. As a child I always used the latter pronunciation.
Rather odd (especially considering that a vac-u-um is needed
to make a vak-yoom cleaner).
--angela
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| 724.9 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Mon Oct 18 1993 18:09 | 6 |
| >Rather odd (especially considering that a vac-u-um is needed
>to make a vak-yoom cleaner).
That's rather odd. I thought that a vak-yoom cleaner was needed
to make a vac-u-um, though a vac-u-um was needed to make a
vac-yoom cleaner clean.
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| 724.10 | | SMURF::BINDER | Vita venit sine titulo | Tue Oct 19 1993 07:19 | 1 |
| My vac-yoom cleaner isn't dirty. Do I need a vac-u-um anyway?
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| 724.11 | | CALS::DESELMS | Vincer�! | Tue Oct 19 1993 07:55 | 4 |
| Why would you need a vacuum cleaner if by definition a vacuum is devoid of
dirt?
- Jim
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| 724.12 | | SMURF::BINDER | Vita venit sine titulo | Tue Oct 19 1993 08:53 | 1 |
| Do we hafta take devoid of dis crumb?
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| 724.13 | | MU::PORTER | cool runnings | Mon Oct 25 1993 11:34 | 1 |
| Nature abhors a vacuum cleaner.
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| 724.14 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Mon Oct 25 1993 16:10 | 4 |
| VAX sucks.
(Or to be politically correct, VAX[tm] machines suck,
as long as you associate the trademark correctly.)
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| 724.15 | note nodename | VAXUUM::T_PARMENTER | The cake of liberty | Tue Oct 26 1993 05:38 | 2 |
| Others are RAGMOP, CLOSET, CLUTTR . . .
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