At 2004-07-23T21:23:30+1200, Paul Wilkins wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >>>whole business of data on POTS using modems is one huge cludge, > >>It's "kluge". > >http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=cludge&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta= > > > >Results 1 - 10 of about 2,620 for cludge. (0.32 seconds) > >It's either.
> For the record yer honour, it's neither cludge nor kluge (valid to a > lesser degree) but kludge. > 2620 cludge's vs 140,000 kludge's. > You forgot your google tip - "Did you mean: */kludge/* > <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&q=kludge&spell=1>" You're both wrong. You get an F. A hardware hack of that type (POTS) is a kluge. Check the original JARGON file, or FOLDOC. It's very, very sad that you both think Google is authoritave about anything. Using your insightful method, I could also "prove" that Windows was better than Linux, or that if something "begs the question" it _really_ means that the question should be raised. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
