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S vs Xyzzy - What's the difference?

s | xyzzy |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun xyzzy is

.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    xyzzy

    English

    (wikipedia xyzzy)

    Noun

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  • * 2001 , Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Web Security, Privacy and Commerce
    • Especially bad are "magic words" from computer games, such as xyzzy . These magic words look secret and unguessable, but in fact they are widely known.
  • * 2002 , Mark Gaynor, Network Services Investment Guide
    • Suppose stock xyzzy is selling at $100.00 on January 1, 2002. The classic call option is to pay a fixed amount per share (say $10) for the option to buy...
  • * 2005 , Ruslan Mitkov, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics
    • The path that relates xyzzy to XYZZY cycles many times through the single state of the transducer.
  • * 2006 , Venkat Subramaniam, Andy Hunt, Practices of an Agile Developer
    • How you even form the sentence makes a difference; if you say, "We need technology xyzzy because...," then the battle for common sense is already lost.
  • * 2008 , Randal L Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian Foy, Learning Perl
    • Perl doesn't care if you call your loop labels things like XYZZY or PLUGH.