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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread 'puter #20403 02/27/01 01:07 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Rapunzel OP enthusiast OP Rapunzel enthusiast Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania I recently finished Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon, and noticed that numerous characters abbreviated the word computer as 'puter in everyday speech. I have never heard that done, and was wondering if anyone else has? It sounds rather odd to me. Aenigma thinks Tom Clancy is clandestine. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted 'puter Rapunzel 02/27/01 01:07 PM Re: 'puter Faldage 02/27/01 01:17 PM Re: 'puter garynamy 02/27/01 01:44 PM Re: 'puter Faldage 02/27/01 02:11 PM Re: 'puter Bobyoungbalt 02/27/01 04:49 PM Re: 'puter Bean 02/27/01 06:32 PM Re: 'puter Anonymous 02/27/01 07:03 PM Re: 'puter Seian 02/27/01 07:14 PM Re: 'puter belMarduk 02/27/01 10:32 PM Re: 'puter wwh 02/27/01 11:41 PM Re: 'puter AnnaStrophic 02/28/01 01:45 AM Re: 'puter Sparteye 02/28/01 01:32 PM Re: 'puter NicholasW 02/28/01 01:43 PM Re: 'puter Solamente, Doug. 03/15/01 03:10 AM Re: 'puter Fiberbabe 03/16/01 02:23 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,381 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (A C Bowden), 346 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 33 A C Bowden 27 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,568 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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