Re: XYZZY

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From: cos... Bernie Cosell
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 13:28

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r...@squid.rtech.com ("REB - Tennessee Lamb") writes:

}Does the word "xyzzy" have an origin earlier than the Colossal Cave adventure
}game? Where exactly did it come from?

I believe that Will just made it up [much as he made up near everything else
in Adventure].  I can ask him, but I'm really quite sure that it was just
random-letters.

  /Bernie\

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