Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:34:34 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <200204060034.TAA04478@repulse.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:38:57 EST." <20020405183857.GA58446@oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
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> For my own peace of mind, could someone provide an example where S uses A,
> but S does not utilize A. Or the other way 'round.
Utilising Webster's Online dictionary one finds this use:
{Utility}, {Usefulness}. Usefulness has an Anglo-Saxon
prefix, utility is Latin; and hence the former is used
chiefly of things in the concrete, while the latter is
employed more in a general and abstract sense. Thus, we speak
of the utility of an invention, and the usefulness of the
thing invented; of the utility of an institution, and the
usefulness of an individual. So beauty and utility (not
usefulness) are brought into comparison. Still, the words are
often used interchangeably.
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