I would think that they chose the Swahili word deliberately. Someone probably went looking at multi-language words for Open and that one jumped out.
A good friend retired from the Greenwich Observatory and started a business selling telescopes. He called his business Green Witch. This is a very in joke name. Some older Brits might know the joke from the radio show, Ï'm sorry I'll read that again". On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 6:49 AM zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:17 AM Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Wazi happens to be the Swahili word for open. Conveniently it happens to > > have the voiced letter Z in it. > > > > Well, that was lucky! But how did they choose the name? Oh, wait, you're > suggesting that the name was chosen BECAUSE it's Swahili for "open"? What > are the odds... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
