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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<abodo0$9s$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> John McCabe <john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com> wrote:
> : 
> : I also agree with someone else who suggested the possible confusion
> : between GPS and GPS.
> 
> Could we pronounce GPS "gypsy"?

That's interesting. Whereas gnats are notorious for just being
annoying, gypsy moths are a downright menace. :-)

(reference - http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/morgantown/4557/gmoth/ )

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