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From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan)
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Subject: Re: "employe" flame
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 14:51:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 14:51:23 1984
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    When I was a Honeywell employee, I received "The Honeywell World", or
some such (propaganda periodical for employees).  Said periodical consistently
spelled "employee" as "employe".  My eye kept stumbling over this spelling as
I attempted to read the paper, but before writing a letter to the editor
complaining, I checked a dictionary.  Webster's Ninth New Collegiate 
Dictionary lists both spellings as equally acceptable.  I have no idea where
the short spelling derives from, or why it's acceptable, but it would seem
that using it simply indicates a belief that it is preferable.  I sincerely
doubt that saving ink is a motive.
-- 
					Morris M. Keesan
					{decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!keesan
					keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA