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Re: Zipper Name for SmartWord



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