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From: glacy@grits (Grady Lacy)
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Date: 22 Apr 1994 13:02:54 GMT
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CM STRINGER (C.M.Stringer@bradford.ac.uk) wrote:

: A recent argument with a friend has led to this poll.
: Please mail me (cmstring@brad.ac.uk) and answer this crucial question: How
: do YOU pronounce ASCII?
: please say with a hard "C" or soft. Thankyou very much

With a hard "C".  (When I was a "neophyte" with computers, I pronounced 
it as "aye ess see two".  My brother, a computer nerd, told me it was 
"ass key".
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