[TUHS] Bugs, Bööge and Bogeymen (was: 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors)

Niklas Karlsson nikke.karlsson at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 01:52:08 AEST 2021


Den lör 19 juni 2021 kl 17:48 skrev Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu>:

> So *i* could *imagine* Norwegians pronounce their "bøg" and Svedes
> pronounce their "Bög" maybe a bit like "Bock", short and tough.
> Bo-ck, not Booo-ck (english: not buuuu-ck, o!=u), or so.
> The German "Bock" is a "Ram", the "Böckchen" its minimization
> (often not advisable!), and ramification of a Ram is often seen as
> desirable (wham! bam! thank you ma'am!, though that false jobsite,
> in this case).
>

No, not really. It's a long "ö" and the g is a g, not a k/ck. (Not as sure
of the Norwegian term,
but if I had to guess I'd say the same there.

Niklas
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