Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 3 00:57:16 EDT 2016

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> even though the French often still disagree, 
> preferring words like « ordinateur » and « octet » over “computer” and 
> “byte”, respectively

To be fair, "octet" is a slightly more precise term than
"byte", meaning exactly 8 bits (whereas "byte" could
theoretically mean something else depending on the
context).

There's no excuse for "ordinateur", though. :-)

-- 
Greg

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