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Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> writes:

> Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>> On 3 Apr 2025 15:06:34 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >> * if applications can be called "apps" surely utilities can be called
>> >> "utes"?
>> >
>> >  Utes are big things and apps are normally small things. But you can
>> >call anything, anything you like, so 'utes' it is! :-)
>> >
>> ><https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+ute>
>> 
>> That's in AusE. We call those "bakkies" in SAfE. 
>
>   For this Dutchie, "bakkies" is perfectly natural.
>
>> But its still short for "utilities" (the U in SUV) so you can just as
>> easily use the abbreviation for utility programs on your computer. 
>
>   Yes, in future, in the off chance we get stuck in some kind of
> constructive discussion, let's throw in some comments about 'utes'.
> That'll teach them! :-)
>
>   My ute can beat up your ute!
Just to muddy the waters,

  "Utes" are an Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado
  Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New
  Mexico.[7][3] Historically, their territory also included parts of
  Wyoming, eastern Nevada, and Arizona.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_people
-- 
-Don_from_AZ-