Subject: RE: Paramet[e]rization

Subject: Subject: RE: Paramet[e]rization
From: "ROGERS, MARTHA (CONTRACTOR)" <MARTHA -dot- ROGERS -at- DFAS -dot- MIL>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:47:26 -0600


Michael Shea wrote:
"To answer your question, it looks like this dictionary allows both. Though typically these are listed in most common usage first, so go with parameterization."
Then Dick Margulis wrote:
". . .Merriam-Webster states in the frontmatter to all of their dictionaries that you cannot draw this conclusion when alternate spellings are separated by _or_. If there is a main entry followed by the word _also_ and then another spelling, the first spelling is more common."

Dick:
I hadn't realized variant spellings were categorized by the dictionary's use of "or" and "also." Thanks to you, I learned something today. Now maybe I'm being dense but my government-issue Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary front matter says "or" is used to indicate "the two forms are in almost equally frequent use. . ." while the variant following "also" indicates the less preferred variant "when there is a distinct preference for one variant."

Martha
<delurking and feeling like a sitting canard>




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