[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Sun Dec 18 08:53:09 EST 2011


On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:13:31 -0800, Alan Feldman wrote:

> On Dec 17, 7:08 am, Paul Sture <p... at sture.ch> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:23:02 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> > In article
>> > <d99b6905-8568-44d6-8930-73a3a86d7... at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
>> > AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>> >> Merriam Webster.
>>
>> >> Why not?
>>
>> >> What would you recommend?
> [...]
>>
>> >    And even M-W is wrong sometimes.
>>
>> A decade or more ago I found so many errors in the online version of
>> M-W that I didn't trust it.  That does seem to have improved since.
>>
> 
> Can you please give some examples?
> 
> Thanks!

Eh? More than a decade on? :-)

I am pretty sure that we discussed the difference between "assure" and 
"insure" right here on comp.os.vms.  Their pronunciation of "nuclear" was 
a bit suspect too :-)
-- 
Paul Sture



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