For me, "punched card" isn't quite as easy to pronounce as "punch card", but I have some difficulties saying "iced tea". Perhaps "ice' tea" would be more a more accurate representation.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 5:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader! >Hard as it may be to do so, let's also try to avoid 'punch card', using >'punched card' instead. Why? It is a card that you can punch holes in, but it is not punched when you initially take it out of the box. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
