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Date:      Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:58:42 +1100 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Pronunciations
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021252560.30136-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012011550220.31931-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>

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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Beattie wrote:

> 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 

The spinning thingy is called a "propeller".

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