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RE: Words that should never be uttered or documented...
Subject:RE: Words that should never be uttered or documented... From:"Gregory Sweet" <Gsweet -at- cdphp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:53:04 -0400
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>Maybe last night was the night for such phrases. Someone said to me (while
>complaining about different doc standards by different groups in their
>company):
>
> The problem is that they've silo-ed the information.
>
Well, if you were a smartass like me, you'd have said, "the word is ensiled." When you put stuff into a silo, you ensile it. The contents of a silo is called either silage (long i) or ensilage (stress on first syllable, short i), depending on the speaker (they mean the same thing).
That should bring the conversation to a screeching halt <g>
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