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Re: OT: Either not Eighther [Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar]



On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:35:45PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 07:59:50PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> > To fix (in firefox and all/many? other gnome apps), eighter run
> 
> either
> pronounced EEE-thER or EYE-thER (soft th)
> not ether [the gas that puts you to sleep] pronounced ETHer (hard th)

"And no ether, eether."
"EYE-ther."
:-)

> or eight (ATE)
> 
> either is not pronounced as AY-ther, which is a latinate word
> aether, which is the fifth element (air, fire, water, earth, aether).

I thought the fifth element was called Leeloo...

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