koto

n : Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a

rectangular wooden sounding box and silk strings that are

plucked with the fingers

toto

/toh-toh'/ The default scratch file name among

French-speaking programmers - in other words, a francophone

{foo}. The phonetic mutations "titi", "tata", and "tutu"

canonically follow "toto", analogously to {bar}, {baz} and

{quux} in English.

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(1995-04-18)