On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:21:16 +0000, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> >I was once asked whether Ministers of Parliament were shouting "here here" or >"hear hear" and I didn't have a clue. I had to look it up in Hansard. And >even now I know the answer I don't know how the cry originated. > It's "Hear! Hear!" as in "Hear him! Hear him!" When IBM brought out SCSI, they initially pronounced it "sexy" and wanted it that way, but somebody thought of "scuzzy" and that's what caught fire with people. -- Ned _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
