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RE: [PLUG] update strategies/partition issue
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Title: RE: [PLUG] update strategies/partition issue
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:waltman@pobox.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:59 PM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] update strategies/partition issue
>
>Correct. It literally means "face to face" in French. "Vis" is
>normally pronounced like "vee" in English, unless it's followed by a
>word that begins with a vowel. Then the ordinarily silent consonant
>is added to the beginning of the following word, ending up with
>something like "vee-zah-vee". (Linguists call this a "liaison".)
most liaisons are vis-a-vis, although the internet seems to
be changing that slightly.
>
>Walt
>
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