Date:         Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:51:33 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Preventive maintenance was: Now Preventative Maintenance
Comments: To: Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@gmail.com>
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yes, expecially supposably.

Jim

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Michael Sullivan
<sandwichhead@gmail.com> wrote:
> supposably
> Michael in San Antonio
> 91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
> 73 Beetle
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Angus Gordon <birdworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *
>>
>> Well David, teeth-itching aside, a
>> ccording to Merriam-Webster preventative is synonymous with preventive.
>> Many
>> prefer to use preventive in adjective senses and preventative in noun
>> senses, but Loren's usage was entirely legal.
>> *
>>
>> Angus (Preventative Maintenance Manager of Multiple Vanagons)
>>
>>
>>
>> Angus Gordon
>> Bainbridge Island WA
>>
>> birdworks@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:37 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
>> >
>>
>