[BITList] happy engineer's day

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appreciate the true explanation, Hugh
afraid the pre-literacy period was not in our curriculum!
ct

From: HUGH 
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 3:15 AM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] happy engineer's day

Colin,

In the early days, before literacy was invented, engineers were sometimes enginners, also enjinners and often ingeneers - and as long as they could hold a spanner and sharpen a chisel at 50 degrees, the spelling didn't matter too much. Once literacy came in, however, the other spellings became an embarrassment and were forced to go to sea, mostly with BI. True.

Hugh.


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