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> Martha Rogers wrote:
> > After checking an online dictionary (www.yourdictionary.com)
> > and my Webster's Riverside II, itseems "insure" and "ensure"
> > are interchangeable. Each can mean "to make secure or certain."
> --
And Bill Gladstone added:<snip>
I always thought so. Same as "inquire" and "enquire".
</snip>
Yabbut, you always have to consider that other meaning of "insure" - that
is, "to indemnify," IOW, "If this thing doesn't work or causes harm, we
agree to compensate you [in some way]." In this litigious society, people
may well take THAT meaning from "insure."
Marguerite
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