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In the Scheme programming language community, there's a convention of naming implementations using variations on the term "scheme".

So "Plot" is the ultimate name for a Scheme charting library.

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cool. didn't know that.

in that case, I bet there is some implementation called scam, because a French person might pronounce scheme as scam, like femme is pronounced in the famous phrase "cherchez la femme".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherchez_la_femme

Having an "e" pronounced "a" in french is very rare, I would also intuitively only expect it to happen when the "e" is followed by two consonants. A french person would likely mispronounce scheme either as "shem" or "skem", based on their familiarity with english. We have "Schéma" for "schematics", and we pronounce it "shem-a"

Okay, thanks.

Then what is the penultimate name?

Ms. Fit

Angle

Frame-up

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