Thus it was written in the epistle of Lars Appel,
> >The HP 3000 900 Series is now the HP e3000 900 Series.
>
> Maybe it is just because I am not a native English speaker,
> but wouldn't "HP 3000e Business Server" have been much easier
> to pronounce?

Well it would if the e was spoken, but coming after the P as it does, it
becomes a silent e and so the pronunciation is "HP3000" ;-).

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take
the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
                        -- Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)