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On Saturday, 20 January 2018 11:29:25 UTC, tim... wrote:
"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 20/01/2018 11:08, Tim Streater wrote:
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We shouldn't be giving currency to these non-words, even if lazy ****s
like T i m think they are able to produce references for them.


You shouldn't be posting here then as computers, usenet, etc. don't
exist.

I remember when I first started my interest in computing I was told by
school teachers that the word "program" didn't exist (in UK English)

Now, if you you told someone that, they would look at you like you had
claimed to have just arrived from Mars.

tim

The word 'Computer' is from the 1640s.

as (says 17th Cent) is the word programME

tim




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