[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Dec 18, 11:26 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
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> On 12/18/2011 8:53 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
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> > On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:13:31 -0800, Alan Feldman wrote:
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> >> 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:
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> >>>> <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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> >>>>     And even M-W is wrong sometimes.
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> >>> 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.
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> >> Can you please give some examples?
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> >> Thanks!
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> > Eh? More than a decade on? :-)
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> > 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 :-)
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> There are still people who pronounce it as "nucular"!!  I try to avoid
> them!  Trying to change them is hopeless!

It *does* sound pretty awful.

But it's getting worse. People are saying things like: "I should have
did that." And many say "lay" when they mean "lie," though that's been
a slowly growing problem for a much longer period of time.

AEF