Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:50:36 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, "'Alfred Perlstein '" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "'David Talkington '" <dtalk@prairienet.org>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012011550220.31931-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <3A26F238.53F6E6E6@glue.umd.edu>
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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. :)
>
No you are wrong
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