[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

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In article <i46dnVySAbuuiXPTnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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!

What about the JoyZee folks who pronounce it new-kul-her?  Do you avoid
them too?

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