Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 23:15 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> I don't think anyone naturally says "thunk" except as a joke.
Maybe not, but "caught" as the past tense of "catch" started out as a
joke, didn't it?
Another jocular past-tense I've heard is "squoze" and "squozen" for
"squeezed", by analogy with "froze/frozen".
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