On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 15:29 +0100, Andy Pepperdine wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 12:52, James Knott wrote: > > What do you mean by "ally"? > > It's a-(eleven)-y and I guess it is accessibility (meaning access by the > disabled of various types). > Yes, a'y would be more appropriate. That pattern is a kind of "geek speak" for certain common long words used in computer communications, for example i18n for internationalization. The numbers tell how many letters were left out. The uneducated just have to guess what the original word was ;)
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