Klarinet Archive - Posting 000879.txt from 1999/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Plural of Opus
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 21:31:19 -0400

From: Larry Paikin <larrypaikin@-----.net>
> ok, Hotshot, what are chad, anyhow?
> charette@-----.org wrote:
> > Quick, now, for you DP old-timers:
> >
> > The singular of chad is ...
> >
> > As we wander far, far off topic ....

Chad are the little square pieces of card or paper punched out of the old
punch cards or paper tapes used by computers. The official singular is
chadim, but chad is (I was going to say often, but I guess it's really
seldom :^) used as a singular noun.

Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org

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