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It's 'Hardy Heron'... not 'Hungry Hungry Hippo'

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Submitted by pipitas on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 19:43

So... the world is made to know already what Ubuntu 8.04 will be named: it's 'Hardy Heron'. This choice has a good and a bad side to it.

First the good one: it made me dicionary-lookup the 'heron' word (and stealthily confirm the 'hardy' one, since I wasn't completely sure about its meaning any more).

The bad one: I lost my secret bet about the next codename (which was 'Hungry Hungry Hippo').

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Am I the only one who

Submitted by blaster999 on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 20:10.

Am I the only one who misread "Heron" as "Heroin"? Laughing out loud

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I guess I could see how

Submitted by troy.unrau on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 00:24.

I guess I could see how misreading it that way could happen, especially if you don't recognize the heron as a bird. Apparently our brains don't process words letter by letter unless you're just learning to read.

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If tehre is smtohing taht is

Submitted by pipitas on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 01:13.

If tehre is smtohing taht is ttoally ovreraetd tehn it msut be 'seplling croretcly'.

Acocrdnig to a sutdy of the Cmabridge Uinervtisty it is irerlvnat wehre ecaxtly I palce the ltetres of a gievn wrod -- eessntail are the frist and the lsat ltetres olny. The rset may be a ttoal mess, and you can stlil raed it OK wihtuot any maojr porbelms...

the smae sutdy fuond out hoewver, taht araon-sytle of non-cpatilaiztoin is a cpatial crmie agianst 'prasabiilty'...

Eye-wink

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