QOTW: Jim Fulton: "[What's] duck typing?" Andrew Koenig: "That's the Australian pronunciation of 'duct taping'."
I must protest.
1) No (true-blue) Australian has every uttered the words 'duct taping', because Aussies (and Pommies) know that the universe is held together with gaffer tape, not duct tape. See http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/gaffer/
b) If an Australian were ever induced to utter the words 'duct typing', the typical Strine (see http://www.geocities.com/jendi2_2000/strine1.html ) pronunciation would be more like 'duh toypn' - the underlying principle being one of elimination of all unnecessary syllables, vowels and consonants, thus eliminating the need to move the lips (which reduces effort and stops flies getting in).
Tim C Sydney, Australia -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
