[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Dec 16, 9:23 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <d99b6905-8568-44d6-8930-73a3a86d7... at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > Merriam Webster.
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> > Why not?
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> > What would you recommend?
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>    Check again.  Webster came up with a style of dictionary, and just
>    about all publishers use it.
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>    On the cover page of the dictionary you can find out who actually
>    published it.  They may not actually be Merriam Webster.  And they
>    are responsible for the content.
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>    Sometimes the publisher will include a discussion of what
>    self-proclaimed experts wrote the content.  Sometimes they just hack
>    something togther that they can sell, and the content is amaizingly
>    poor.
>
It's Merriam Webster. I got my quote from their website. Here:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/ , to be exact.

>    And even M-W is wrong sometimes.

Yeah, I noticed their definition of the word "next" is missing a
certain sense, though seven of their examples use it in that sense as
being "after".

AEF