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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: what spell(1) doesn't do...
Message-ID: <2666@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 00:31:54 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.2666
Posted: Thu Jan 30 00:31:54 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 01:41:50 EST
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Followup-To: whereever you think best
Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
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Summary: two words it didn't catch

In response to my article objecting to force spell(1) to be applied
to articles before they are posted, I received two letters,
each pointing out errors in my original posting (which was run thru
spell(1), by the way).

The first pointed out my error in the use of 'pedantists':

> to appease the pedantists who cannot tolerate seeing misspelled
                 ^^^^^^^^^^

I was corrected that this should have been 'pedants'.  I checked
the dictionary and this is true; there is no 'pedantists', and
'pendants' is the word I wanted.

The second pointed to the word 'thru':

> PS -- I ran this article thru spell before posting it (I thought
                           ^^^^

No excuse, that's how I spell; that's how I think it *should* be
spelled.  I hope that 'thru' will become the accepted spelling of
'through', but it is at least currently used in 'conversational'
writing.  (In formal writing I still use 'through').

By the way, both of the letter-writers agreed with me not to force
spell onto article-posters.

[ Since I wasn't sure where to direct the follow-ups to, I've
  garbaged the "Followup-To: " line in the header.  I read
  net.nlang, too, so if you want to persue that angle.... ]
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

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~ Is truth unchanging law? ~
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