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From: ronbe@tekred.UUCP (Ron Bemis )
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Initialize initialize initialize
Message-ID: <276@tekred.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 18:59:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 18:59:01 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

Well, our edition of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary lists:

initialize -zed; -zing: to set (as a computer program counter) to a
starting position or value -- initialization.

You looked at what dictionary?  Under the I's?
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