Re: Turing Machines Have no Real Time Clock (Was The Game of Life)

From: David Lloyd-Jones <icomm5.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 06:27:15 -0500

<GSLevy.domain.name.hidden> writes:

> I looked up codswallop in the dictionnary and I was very surprised to find
> that it is a recent British word coined around 1963. It means "nonsense."

1963 doesn't strike me as credible, but I don't have the reference book
handy to contradict it.

Amusingly, Webster's Third New International has an entry for "cods," which
they oddly report as being the "plural of cod, a fish." This isn't credible,
either. In fact it's a load of, since the plural of cod is cod. Cods is a
synonym for codswallop.

                                                   -dlj.
Received on Tue Jan 25 2000 - 04:43:30 PST