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How to Say “Pgnttrp” (youtube.com)
3 points by teddyh on Feb 21, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



My first thought was "This is stupid" before I got curious (and that surely is the curse of this so-called word!)

Then I found it in my regular word dict files as well as my common password list, and again on this sweater: https://teeshirt21.com/product/i-love-pgnttrp-hoodie-u5UzE

Rainwords shows it as one of 97 English words with 'pg' in the spelling. The only one that comes to mind for me without looking at their list is "stopgap." So I guess I have another if I ever need one for whatever reason.

I think it is really just the FORTRAN connection having been picked up in weird places. I strongly doubt it is English for anything outside of that context.

I think I'm going to get that sweater just to spread the joy. Hopefully it doesn't mean "kick me!"


  $ grep pgnttrp /usr/share/dict/*
  /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane:pgnttrp
  /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane:pgnttrp
  /usr/share/dict/words:pgnttrp
What is pgnttrp?


Looks like it is the name of a FORTRAN subroutine[1] from MTS (Michigan Terminal System) that somehow creeped into our dictionary files. Now you can buy hoodies with "1 <3 PGNTTRP" prints and watch videos like that above, because of bot produced content.

[1] https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/7958...




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