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The French still cling to ordinateur instead of computer, but in Italy even schoolchildren call it by its American name.
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Here the ordinateur, as the French call a computer, reigns.
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He was commissionaire ordinateur en chef of the army; you have sometimes seen him at the house of Barras.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe