RE: "Picklist"

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

We use this term when staging manufactured hardware products for
shipment. We write it as two words: "pick list." For GUI terminology, we
would use "list box" or "drop-down list."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Allison
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:12 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: "Picklist"
> 
> Have just come across this word for the first time. I find it . . . 
> unpleasant.
> 
> Do you use this term? Surely "listbox" or just plain "list" 
> are the usual terms. Or has this word been around and I've 
> just missed it?
> 

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