I avoided the other off charter bait, but this is a red dot to me. On 11/6/2016 19:59, Patrick wrote:

Over at Language Hat, they are trying to establish the common pronunciation of "read receipts" [1]

To me, they've always just been "DSNs" or "MDNs", however, according to rfc2298, their history goes back further.

Of those who lived that history, and actually heard or said "read receipts", did you pronounce "read" as "reed" or as "red"?

I always pronounce them "More danged spam leaking thru the filters" but when I test-read (red) the question, R E A D came out "read (reed)". The burning questions we have to deal with these days, -- "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Albert Einstein From Larry's Cox account.