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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Poor English (here too)
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 15:36:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 15:36:20 1985
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>
> > Don't worry about "orientate" -- the biggest problem is the word
> > "initialize" which every computer person really and truly believes
> > is a genuine word!
> > -- 
> > Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
> > 
> Frightening.  As one who prides myself on striving for reasonable English,
> I checked this in my Webster's New Universal, and "initialize" is not there!
> On the other hand, "initialize" is a very useful word, so I think I will
> keep it.
> -- 
> John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
> ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA

	Hmm, it's not in my (1978) American Heritage Dictionary
either.  It will be in dictionaries soon though.  
It is perfectly ordinary and normal
to change English nouns into verbs by adding "-ize."


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