[Jukebox-list] etymological

[Jay Hennigan]

David Breneman wrote:

> Queue is the British word, as in "Were were in a queue in front
> of the theatre."  I suppose it's adoption in America is akin to
> the pronunciation change from hur-ASS to HAIR-uss for the
> word "harass".  It sounds oh so cultured.  :-)

I think the use of "queue" comes from mathematics/computers and geeks 
entering the mainstream.  Queueing is often used to describe packet flow 
on networks, email transfer, etc.

The second change is due to political correctness.  When asked to give 
an example of harassment, "I was walking behind her and couldn't figure 
out what the tattoo on harassment" is apparently wrong.

Another couple of things that I hear from the computer geek world that 
bug me are the non-word "administrate" instead of "administer" and 
"processes" being pronounced "process-ease" intstead of process-es".

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