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Thinking back to when the company I worked for started migrating to Ethernet in the late 1990s. The lady who ran the mainframe terminals talked about switching from SNA over Token Ring to 3270 emulators over Ethernet but she pronounced it "Either" instead of "Ether".
Eithernet
Also, the team securing the fancy new Ethernet was called "TCP/IP Security". By the time I joined the team a couple years later, it was called "Network Security".
#Eithernet
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