Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:24 |
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:06:20PM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
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> Hm... I've never heard them called pencils before. They're normally
> called pacers here. Which I'm pretty sure is another trademark... The
> trademark-free version is always 'mechanical pencil', but it's only seen
> on the packets of pacers made my companies who don't own the trademark.
> (If a word becomes a part of the language, why do companies get to keep
> the trademark? It doesn't really seem fair.)
The only thing called a Pacer over here is an old car model. :)
> like Schools and Unis generally don't accept things written in pencil
"Uni" is another word we don't use over here. I assume it's short for
"university", but we usually say "colleges", or include them in
"schools", or say "universities" if we want to sound pretentious.
-Mark
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