From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,811674947553ef14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-27 04:41:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:37:39 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3C037B03.5DDA76F7@brighton.ac.uk> References: <5LHYDjy2Mcfg@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3BFC5861.D3E2B270@acm.org> <3bfcc8a9$0$15836$626a54ce@news.free.fr> <3BFEEB0B.E1C0E709@brighton.ac.uk> <9toatb$4bn$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> <3C021EA6.4221485E@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1006861334 20913 193.62.183.154 (27 Nov 2001 11:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Nov 2001 11:42:14 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17035 Date: 2001-11-27T11:42:14+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > US companies selling such service other than on the original 800 Mhz > "A carrier" and "B carrier" AMPS service often use the term "wireless" > to indicate that what they offer is somehow not "cellular" in nature. Hmm, In the UK "the wireless" is what my parents used to listen to before they started calling it "the radio" (i.e in the days of the BBC broadcasting "the Home Service", "the Light Programme" and "the Third Programme" before they became BBC Radio 4, Radio 2 and Radio 3 respectively). Two countries separated by a common language, eh? ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------