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In article <nd2chklaop63mu4edevpck8to8du9vnic4@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On 12 Nov 2025 17:24:34 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
><tednolan>) wrote:
>
>>In article <62d9hkdh6r696tt51fa04o16tqf6ccjtjv@4ax.com>,
>>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:48:05 +0100, Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Am Dienstag000011, 11.11.2025 um 17:31 schrieb Paul S Person:
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:45:27 +0100, Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am Dienstag000011, 11.11.2025 um 00:36 schrieb The Starmaker:
>>>>>>> Now, Albert Einstein also mentions "Europeans"...
>>>>>>> but I'm from Brooklyn New York so I have no idea what he means
>>>>>>> by "Europeans"!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are French people "Europeans"??? Is French a language or a Race????
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually 'French' is the name of a certain dressing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Like for example, is Spanish a Race or a language?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was also the name of a very dangerous flu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually 'spanish' is quite a useful word and could address all sorts of
>>>>>> things, like e.g. wines, cheese and oranges, which stem mainly from the
>>>>>> county 'Spain'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That country is mainly located in Europe (partly in Africa).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The citizens of Spain are called 'Spaniards'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Most of them use the language 'Spanish', but not all, because some speak
>>>>>> Catalan, Mallorquin or Bask.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I suspect you mean "Basque".
>>>>
>>>>I'm so sorry, but later I found out, that my speeling was wrong, once 
>>>>the messagae was already sent it wand it was too late.
>>>>
>>>>Well, sorry, but 'Basque' is also a language which I cannot speak.
>>>>
>>>>I have actually not written the word ever before. So, please forgive me 
>>>>to write 'Basque' wrong.
>>>
>>>Hey, we all make mistakes. I pronounced "modem" with a long "o" until
>>>I actually heard someone pronounce it.
>>>
>>
>>I think you heard someone pronounce it wrong then...
>
>It's an abbreviated form of "modulator-demodulator".
>
>Bing agrees with you, BTW. So perhaps things changed since I heard
>last heard it pronounced. Which was probably 30-40 years ago.
>
>The long "o" seemed to me to follow from the spelling, so it is
>possible that others felt the same way. And eventually prevailed.

It's been pronounced that way, in my experience, since I was in
college, circa 1983.

The joys of connect scripts...

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