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Subject:RE: insure or ensure (was: RE: Warnings) From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:38:05 -0500
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> From: Marguerite Krupp [mailto:mkrupp -at- cisco -dot- com]
[...]
> 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."
Indeed. And why sound like a dummy (by using "insure"
when you mean "ensure"), when you have a choice?
Use "ensure" for "make it so".
Use "assure" for "verify that somebody has 'made it so'".
Use "insure" for "indemnify", or "make provision for picking
up the pieces if somebody fails to ensure or assure"... :-)
/kevin
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