On Saturday, April 1, 1989 at 3:56:13 AM UTC-5, wa...@valeria.cs.ucla.edu wrote:
> Last night, on the BBC World Service shortwave broadcast just before
> 0800 UTC, the following question was posed:
> What is the only one-syllable
> English word which has no rhyme?
> They said the answer would be given next week.
> I think I know the answer. In ROT13 form (so as not to spoil people's
> fun), my guess is the following word: synatr
> Can anyone think of a rhyme for this word? Can anyone think of another
> one-syllable word with no rhyme (thus disproving the BBC claim)?
> Since some people reading this newsgroup may prefer to think about the
> answer for a while, if you do post a possible answer, please be consid-
> erate of others and use the ROT13 cipher (i.e., shift all letters half-
> way through the alphabet -- as with the UNIX command "tr a-z n-za-m").
> -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683
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> wa...@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!cs.ucla.edu!wales
> "I couldn't read it because my parents forgot to pay the gravity bill."

I know its years later, but you have to wonder where the line is drawn between is the plural definite article "LOS" and "LES" in southern Europe versus the "LOS" abbreviation for anfangen in northern Europe?