[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sun Dec 18 16:00:51 EST 2011


On 12/18/2011 3:49 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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?
>

I have a perfect score on that one!  I have *never* heard it pronounced 
that way!!





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