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mattlondon
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GCHQ Cracks Frank Sidebottom's Codes
It is also the word for a paedophile which is pretty unfortunate.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/nonce
buu700
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That was confusing for me at first when David Cross was sent to the "nonce wing" in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. It seemed like an odd situation to start chatting about crypto.
lainga
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Cue the old protest that "root" means something vulgar in Australia, and so the Unix superuser should be named something else.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root#Etymology_2
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