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

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    By: pipitas
    2007
    29
    Aug

    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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    Wed, 08/29/2007 - 20:10 — blaster999
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    Am I the only one who

    Am I the only one who misread "Heron" as "Heroin"? :D

    Thu, 08/30/2007 - 00:24 — troy.unrau
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    I guess I could see how

    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.

    Thu, 08/30/2007 - 01:13 — pipitas
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    If tehre is smtohing taht is

    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'...

    ;-)

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