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Entering information into our SSH client, my husband asked me to read some of the commands. This was new to both of us and we were not entirely sure what we were doing. Both of us were being extremely cautious so as not to make a mistake.

"Pwd," I read.

"Next", he said.

"Cd," I read off of the list and then took a sip of my Coke Zero.

"Uh huh," he grunted.

"Next is ls -1."

"Yep," came the response.

"Tar -zxvf."

The Yank stared blankly at the computer screen. His brain could not compute what I just said.

Finally he spoke, "What the heck does that mean?"

He then got up from where he was sitting to look over my shoulder to verify the code.

"For the love of gawd, say "zee". You are confusing me with that 'zed' crap."

Mission accomplished.