# Digest whorl.v001.n070 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Mar 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Kieran Mullen *26 Mar 1997, 10:41* > Re: Tick Talk I had always thought that that "add word" was Tick's way of saying "Bad word" - a euphemism for swearing. Otherwise it would be either "wadd word" (b -> w) or "add erd" (drop initial b's). But from the context I think was wrong, and the CW on the list is right. Kieran Mullen Kieran Mullen email: kieran at phyast.nhn.ou.edu Dept. of Physics and Astronomy phone: (405) 325-3961 The University of Oklahoma FAX: (405) 325-7557 Norman, OK 73019, USA http://www.nhn.uoknor.edu/~kieran/ Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---