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New Device detection, 32 vs 64 bit
On 07/16/2018 08:01 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[snip] No, it didn't! That day I just hadn't spotted that my spellchecker had gone berserk and "corrected" lots of things. I had noticed the similarity of "cellophane" and "cellphone". BTW, I once posted about a Windows service called "LoadPowerProfile" and my spell checker corrected it to "laryngectomize". The current one suggests "waterproofing". [snip] -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots." -- Karl Kraus |
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New Device detection, 32 vs 64 bit
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:51:07 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:59:03 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:59:13 -0400, Wolf K wrote: On 2018-07-14 09:26, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [quoted text muted] It's probably less common in the US, where I understand the common term is cellophane, or cell for short; in the UK, it's mobile 'phone, or cellphone! "Cell" means cell/mobile phone. Never heard it as meaning cellophane. And haven't heard of "cellophane" in probably decades. It's plastic wrap, shrink wrap, etc. "Cellophane" was actually a different kind of plastic, noticeably less flexible. Yes, cellophane is what cigarette packs used to be wrapped in. Are they still? I don't know; it's been about 50 years since I last bought one. Cellophane is a vegetable product, most plastic film wrap is either PVC or LDPE which aren't. |
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