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/