Pronunciations (was: And how do you pronounce "csh"?)

[Andrew Hudson]

In article <11411 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>		awk = a - w - k
>
>awk: bailing out near line 1
>
>Obviously it's inspired by an "auk" (a bird) with a parachute;
>there are even T-shirts to corroborate this view.
It was my understanding that this was a BRL localism. I read
the BRL internal AWK reference and heard about more from Steve Wolfe
(bless his networking heart).  Do you have more references on this??

>Gee, isn't this silly.
Heck yeah!

- Andrew Hudson
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