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Date:         Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:23:56 -0700
Reply-To:     Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM
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From:         Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM
Subject:      Re: Buses...Busses...???????? [No Vanagon content]
Comments: To: Bill <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
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The medium has nothing to do with whether accurate or not. Oxford English is far better t6han microgarbage any day. One co. builds software, the other has been produced a scholarly researched dictionary for far longer than MS has been in existence.

Bill wrote: > > There is no such thing as a "proper" dictionary. Languages evolve rapidly, > and a dictionary is just a compilation of currently accepted usage. An > electronic dictionary is far more likely to be current than an > old-fashioned and obsolete printed dictionary. > > At 02:23 PM 10/10/99 GMT, Pat Collins wrote: > >It is a sad day when MS Word is considered an authority on how things > >should be spelled. Use a proper dictionary please! :) > > > > > >Pat N8VW > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > >On 10/9/99, 9:57:48 PM, "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET> wrote > >regarding Re: Buses...Busses...????????: > > > > > > > >> I guess I shoulda looked it up on MS Word. > > > Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > It ain't what you don't know that hurts you, > it's what you do know that's wrong.


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