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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Monday, June 9, 2003, 16:06
Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Hm... I've never heard them called pencils before. They're normally > called pacers here. Which I'm pretty sure is another trademark...
Strange. You Aussies seem to be more prone to making trademarks common nouns than we Americans. :-) They're always called "mechanical pencils" or sometimes just "pencils" here.
> (I hate pencils/pacers. Except maybe for drawing, but I don't do any of > that. If I make a mistake, I generally prefer to cross it out so I can > see where I've been, the exception being with good copies, but places > like Schools and Unis generally don't accept things written in pencil > anyway.)
I prefer pencils myself, except when I'm in a situation where I can't easily sharpen it, then I'll use a pen, so as not to have to worry about breaking the lead. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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