larry@coyotenet

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Flash!! The end may be in sight for inexpensive Chinese knock off engines reports the official arm of the Chinese motor mfg industry with the release of the ZZZ engine. Chinese mfgs are now facing a severe shortage of letters for designating their new engines!! Industry experts are now meeting to discuss using the Cyrillic alphabet as a short term measure to allow production to continue. This may lead to consumers mistaking Chinese for Russian engines, leading to a perceived increase in quality which the Chinese mfgs are rightly worried about.
This news flash comes from a story on the internet which, as everyone knows, can not publish any lies or fictitious news flashes. (at least tha's what it says on the internet!)

earlwb

They can always just add more letters to the name.   "ZZZZZZZZZ"

Cyberwolf

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True earl but in a while the name will out weight the engine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kmeyers

Don't even start to worry.

3 alpha characters = 17,576 possible names.

2 alphas and one numeric = 6760 possible names.

In six years we don't even have 50 names used.

I think we have awhile.