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French computer question.....?
In a magazine article I read some years ago it was said that the French word 'ordinateur' for computer was not invented by the French academie or any other French source but actually by IBM, because the English word 'computer' when said in French sounded like some part of female anatomy. Well, I visit Montréal a lot and I have asked several people what this would be and each one told me he or she had no idea. Can anybody out here tell me? And if it is avulgarism in Parisian French might in not be in Quebecoise French??
