Why not? You've recently gotten failure turned into fail, anything could happen. Jim On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 11:27 AM 4/15/2010, Loren Busch wrote: >> >> Mark has a good point here. In the 1950's the US Navy did a study on the >> value of 'preventative maintenance' on electrical and electronic devices. > > Personal non-official request -- It's "preventive" and my teeth itch > slightly when I see it spelled the other way. Dunno why this one > bothers me so -- as a kid in Maine "drownded" was the common usage > and I just thought that was cute. Still do, along with "skellington" > which I heard from a kid in England and was the common illiterate > usage in 18th c. > > Of course if you can get "preventate" into common use then I'm the > past tense of a male helical-threaded fastener. <g> > > Yours, > d > |
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