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I wouldn’t be surprised if I have a few “anal”s lying around in veritable names I’ve written over the years.

We have a lot of “analysis” in our application and I bet I have shortened them a few times, and in my head I would have pronounced it as uh-naa-l not realizing what it also looked like.

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I wrote a utility to analyze processes for a database system that liked to capitalize and abbreviate everything. To keep my naming conventions in the spirit of things, and because I was feeling a little spicy that day, I named the table that the utility wrote the analysis results into "PROC.ANAL"

Exactly what I was thinking. I remember I once used "ana" everywhere in a program to avoid this.

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