[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sun Dec 18 11:26:32 EST 2011
On 12/18/2011 8:53 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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 :-)
There are still people who pronounce it as "nucular"!! I try to avoid
them! Trying to change them is hopeless!
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