Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Tony Duell<ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> fsck (pronounced fisk) is fun too... it almost sounds like a word..
>> "That fsck'ing volume got corrupted again."
>
> Fuss-Chuck here :-)

F-sick is occasionally heard here.

> The one that really annoys me is to areviate 'motherboard' as 'MoBo' and
> pronounce it 'Mow-Bow'.

'puter ("pewter"), or worse yet, "pooter" (the redneck pronunciation)
as a diminutive/dismissive term for "*COM*puter".  Bleah!

-ethan