John-

I know you invented the "word", and thus have first claim on it. But I was
putting the accent on the penultimate syllable, making it much easier to
rhyme.

Don Borowski





John Woodgate <[email protected]>@majordomo.ieee.org on 11/06/2002
09:03:51 AM

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I read in !emc-pstc that Price, Ed <[email protected]> wrote (in
<[email protected]>) about
'docopocoss' on Wed, 6 Nov 2002:

>Maybe we could come to admire DOCOPOCOSS more if we could rhyme it with
>something.

It's very difficult to get a true rhyme for multi-syllable words which
are accented on the first syllable. Hence:

O all ye lords of ladies intellectual,
Admit it now; have they not hen-pecked you all.

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