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Subject:RE: A FAQ or an FAQ? From:Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:36:12 -0400
Isis Erb said:
> Just to add my thoughts - here in the Northeast (VT, CT and
> NY - I travel a
> bit) I hear both. I hear "fak" from the folks in the business
> and "eff ay q"
> from the uninitiated. Not to cast aspersions on those who
> sound it out as
> individual letters, of course!
>
I'm in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). My observation are consistent with Isis',
except that the line is drawn between whose who have been around Usenet/the
Internet for a while and those who haven't. Ottawa is a fairly well
connected city, so I hear "fak" almost exclusively. (That's how I've been
saying it for, oh, 15 years.)
Cheers ... Kim mailto:kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com
"Do not meddle in the affairs of technical writers, for the hardware is
metric and the screws are loose."
- me
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