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• BiCapitalization: n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as {PostScript}, NeXT, {NeWS}, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!
  olver, EasyWriter) that have been raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization....
• NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym
  he `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken in window systems, an elegant {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun Microsystems....
• udlycaps: /stuhd'lee-kaps/ n. A hackish form of silliness similar to {BiCapitalization} for trademarks, but applied randomly and to arbitrary text rather than to trademarks.
  ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n. [acronym
  the `Network Window System'] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with X if it hadn't been proprietary to Sun Microsystems....
• brute force and ignorance: n. A popular design technique at many software houses -- {brute force} coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways.
  Dogmatic adherence to design methodologies tends to encourage this sort of thing....
• ail-mail: n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
  Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'....
• eaper: n. A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been `reaped'.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• gurfle: /ger'fl/ interj. An expression of shocked disbelief.
  He said we have to recode this thing in FORTRAN by next week....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....