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In article <5b648df214dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
wrote:
> Just a little amusement observed...  :-)

> Quite early today, Tuesday, I was having my breakfast and watching the
> TV where they were having a discussion about AI (Not the original AI.
> being Bull and Horse Sperm) but the modern one...

> It was a bit past 5:00 and I wasn't really taking much notice, but I
> nearly choked on my slurp of tea when someone was talking about Ada
> Lovelace, but continued to call her Adder Lovelace during the chat.

> What can one say...  :-/

Well, in some sense she was an adder, having worked on the Babbage Engine.
 
Her father Lord Byron would probably have been most amused.

-- 
Chris

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