[PW] URL? Is Earl in the Trunk?

[Wendell Cochran]

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:34:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dayle Henshel <dayleh at sprynet.com>

> I've been hanging out in NYC tech circles (website designers,
programmers, writers, graphics people) for more than ten years, and
most of the techies I know refer to it as an 'earl' amongst
themselves -- but use U. R. L. when talking to clients or others not
quite so familiar with the jargon. . . .

Except for the geography, that's exactly my own experience.

I'm reminded of a technical meeting, a dozen years ago, where I
arrived late.  A speaker was alluding to one 'H. T. Emil', & a full
minute elapsed before I realized that he meant HyperText Markup
Language, or 'HTML' spoken fast.

I'd known the term only in print.

Wendell Cochran
West Seattle