Re: Zero-ness

> Date:         Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:52:04 -0500
> From:         "Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...>
> bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> > > "Nihilar"?  :)
> > > (Don't ask me how to pronounce this in English)
> > It would end up being something like /ni:-laR/ in my dialect
> If I had to use it, I would feel compelled to pronounce the <h>,
> which makes it sound awkward for me.  Thus, my resistence of the
> term.
Well, the Romans themselves dropped the haitch, so shrug off that
compulsion. Make both nihilar and nilar official spellings and let
everybody pronounce it like Bryan does.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)