From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 16:41:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5D937B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:41:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA11246; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:41:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:41:13 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: Re: Pronunciations In-Reply-To: <3A26F238.53F6E6E6@glue.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > 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. :) I have. About three weeks ago (actually 23 days, 20:23) I was reading something online (perhaps this very list), crossed my legs, and accidentally hit the power switch with my toe. Retard. Yes, I've moved the CPU to a new spot. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message