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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:35:04 -0500
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
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:  <3A26F238.53F6E6E6@glue.umd.edu>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011301540420.31931-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>

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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. :)


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