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Re: Zipper Name for SmartWord
- Subject: Re: Zipper Name for SmartWord
- From: Wendell Cochran atrypa@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 09:56:53 -0700 (PDT)
I think back a year or so, to a remark in alt.usage.english that
Japanese has a word meaning 'to try out a new sword on a chance
passer-by.'
Yeah, replied Truly Donovan of Boulder (sharpest tongue in the West),
in English we say 'beta testing'.
Wendell Cochran
West Seattle