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   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 02:13:32 -0000 (UTC)   
   Andy Burnelli  wrote:   
      
   > On 8 Feb 2022 23:07:30 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:   
   >   
   > >   You might also like to check out "espeak"   
   >   
   > Nice! Thanks! The good news is that it's apparently from Microsoft.   
      
   Not the way I read it:   
      
   History. Originally known as speak and originally written for Acorn/RISC_OS   
   computers starting in 1995   
      
      
   [snip]   
   >  (pliars) pliers  ... p l i e r s   
   >  (preseeded) preceded  ... p r e c e d e d   
      
   better!   
      
   [snip]   
      
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)