Re: Stupid Question of the day

[Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com>]

No worries, I knew what CMS was a use the 14th edition, but i am going to
approach my boss for buying an updated version.

I'm getting ready to publish a corp style guide so we will need it anyway.

Wade

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security) <
David -dot- Chinell -at- ge -dot- com> wrote:

>  Sorry:
>
> MW 11 = Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition
>
> CMS 15 = The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition
>
> There's nothing magical about these. What's magical is picking them and
> teaching people how they can work to save you time effort.
>
> (Actually, we author in both US and UK English, for works in UK English, we
> use the COED 11 = Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11 Edition.)
>
> It's utter vanity that prompts me to throw off these code-like acronyms and
> I apologize.
>
> Bear
>
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