A somewhat relevant anecdote - for a year or more I argued that
'aggregation' and 'association' were bad choices of terms in the growing
UML standard, due to the chance of confusion. Nobody seemed to get my
point, until another discussion on the mailing list led me to realize that
Americans prononounce these words with very different leading syllables.
Thus the verbal similarity that I perceived (as an Australian of English
background) was not there.
Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM, Software Designer, A.D. Software, Western Australia
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