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Maakuth on April 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]

Finns often call it "miumau" (meow meow) because it looks like a cat's tail.

Vivtek on April 15, 2011 [–]

Hungarians call it "kukac" = worm because it also looks like a worm.

I think I'm going to start calling it cygnus because it looks like the accretion disk of a black hole.

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