On Apr 8, 10:13, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
> > The project he's on is a complete disaster as the manager went for a
> > Microsoft solution using slews of programs
> BTW, your apparent juxtaposition of one word for its homomymn, and it
> happens all too often with this particular one. There's this term,
> pronounced "sloo" which is often misspelled "slew" but which should be
> "slough" also pronounced "sloo" meaning a swamp or quagmire.
Eh? Perhaps American pronunciation differs, but over here "slough"
(meaning swamp) is pronounced to rhyme with "plough" ('plow') :-) Anyway,
"slew" means "large number or quantity" [Oxford English Dictionary], which
I'm sure is what Sean means... On the other hand, "slough" pronounced
"sluff" means dead tissue that drops off from living flesh. Given the
context...
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Apr 08 2000 - 20:10:37 BST