On Jun 14, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

Nobody is claiming that "Pharrot" is a word, just that when pronouned
aloud it sounds like "ferret", and people are likely, with the
plethora of animal project names floating around, to assume that it is
in fact "Ferret" if they hear it before seeing it.

FWIW, the Ruby/C port of the Lucene search engine is named Ferret.

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/

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