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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 17:47:59 EST
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> One peeve of mine is the use of "core dump" as a verb:
> 	"This subroutine core dumps when you don't provide all arguments."
> 	"Core dump that sucker so we can see why it bombs!"
> 	...
> Is not the correct verb be "to dump", with "core" as its object?
> 
Your problem is you don't realize that coredump is all one word.

-Ron