!Re: Nuke Redmond!

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Apr 8 23:21:30 2000

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 Technoid_at_cheta.net wrote:

> In <10004090210.ZM3399_at_indy.dunnington.u-net.com>, on 04/08/00
> at 11:31 PM, pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) said:
>
>
> I have to agree with Pete on this one. I am an American and his
> definitions are correct. Slew also used as a term of flight orientation
> in Aircraft is all I can add.
 
Interesting! Will you provide a sample for illustration?

                                                 - don
 
> >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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