From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 8 2:36:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B8637B422 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 02:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0083.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.83] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16uVZf-0001Gb-00; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 02:36:35 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB1646C.9DF12B4F@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 02:35:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Mark Murray , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize References: <3CAEE006.F36598B1@mindspring.com> <200204061202.g36C2aPL036777@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20020408112409.A90467@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: [ ... amusing anecdote about the difference between "American" and "English" ... ] > So I thought it was indeed possible that Americans mean something > different by "utilize" and "use". But Merriam-Webster says otherwise. Some of us don't condone recent changes in Merriam-Webster, and prefer thew 1913 edition. Luckily, it is the people, not the dctionary companies, which define the language. For the authoritative source for legal use of words, it really comes down to what the definition of the word was when the legislation was passed and/or when the lawyers who wrote the license went to school. Thus my preferred source for "American English" is: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html ...but mainly, I prefer the OED; unfortunately, if you want access to the online copy, you have to buy a hardcopy or subscribe (only unfortunately for those who don't do either, I suppose). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message