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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gal...
Subject: Looks like those boys have a copy of the OED arround
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:40:08 -0400

"Tom Glinos, x4302" <tg@uts...> writes:
| portmanteau?
| hermeneutics?
| 
| Hmmm. It seems that Plan 9 and its ilk may be generating a renaissance
| of the English language as well as computing.

Don't get Rob started on "prepend" again.

By the way, if the mnt driver starts complaining about replies not
matching requests is that indicative of a bug?  I started getting those
messages in response to attempted network connections when our telecom
people decided to randomize the routing tables for the night.