atw: Re: Mouses.

From: bill parker <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:36:30 +0800

austechwriter Digest    Mon, 02 Oct 2006        Volume: 04  Issue: 258

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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:35:49 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: Mouses??
From: "Michael Edward Granat" <megranat@xxxxxxxx>

Oh dear Bruce (A)

What has made you such a grumpy old man since we last met?

We were having a vibrant and informative debate and you let
it become so personal so fast.

To paraphrase Peter G-M's response (ta Peter by the way for an
outstanding reply that mirrors my own thoughts) dictionaries are based
on observed popular word usage.  The popularity of words rise and fall,
appearing in and, eventually disappearing from the pages of various
dictionaries. "Supercalafragalisticexpialidocious" was very popular in the
late 1960s / early 1970s post "Mary Poppins" world (It's in my 1969 Funk &
Wagnalls Dictionary for example) but wouldn't get you very far in today's
corporate world.

PLEASE lighten up, man!

Also, after Peter G-M's response beat me to the punch, and in a far more
erudite manner than I had intended (You remember erudite Bruce?  It's
that twin pack glue that one uses to create compound words, which
takes three days to set.) I was struggling to find suitable words to reply.


snip


Says it all, really.

Cheers,

Micky G.
Write Ideas
www.writeideas.com.au

And we also have Aralditi - the Goddess of Sticky Situations. That just might have been a Tim Brooke Taylor or Bill Oddie original.


But Mouses/Mice???

I have never heard anyone, anywhere, ever talk about anything but a "mouse" in regard to his or her computer.

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