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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: media reliability
Date: 19 Feb 2015 17:12:08 GMT
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On 2015-02-19, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> was all, like:
>> In article <180220150924012263%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
>> wrote:
>
>>> Warren Oates:
>>> > I'd keep your unformatted discs around, though, especially the CD-Rs. 
>>> > You never know when the wife will ask "can you make a copy of this for 
>>> > my sister?"
>>> 
>>> My answer to that would be "Sure. Here's the Dropbox URL for her."
>
>> Heh. My SIL thinks a dropbox is outside the post office, and that URL 
>> rhymes with earl. Actually, I was thinking about music cds.
>
> Many people, including computer professionals, engineers, and
> programmers say "earl" for URL. Not a majority, I don't think, but it is
> not all that unusual.

I've rarely heard anyone pronounce it that way in my line of work.

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