[GreenKeys] 1/2 off topic

[Sam Hallas]

dmm at lemur.com wrote:
>
> The original digitization of this video was done by the Prelinger Archives.
> It is available in two parts at The Internet Archive at:
> https://archive.org/details/Typesett1960
> https://archive.org/details/Typesett1960_2

> (You can get it there in about seven different formats.
> The Teletypesetter bits happen starting at time 13:30 in Part 2.)

Fascinating stuff. Especially the way they justify the text by expanding 
the space elements.

> US viewers might also note that it was narrated by an Englishman.
> So he pronounces "matrices" as something much more like mattresses.
> Most US hot metal folks would say something more like "MAY trih sees"

I think that a gross calumny on my fellow countrymen! I always pronouce 
matrices with a long a. In fact the Oxford English Dictionary gives only 
that pronunciation. I would guess that it's narrated by a speaker whose 
first language is not English, bearing in mind the provenance of the 
video is Italian.

Cheers,
Sam