Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Well, it wasn't my intention to use Will to prove "dear" was either
the common or preferred usage, merely that there was ammunition
to support its usage if someone questioned it.  I would use "dearly" 
in that particular context in my writing.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com>
> I figured poetic license, too; but, hey, that's just my opinion against 
> Gene's, so I wasn't gonna press the issue.
> 
> Besides, I'm still shaking my head over "bloomers."  (My wife can't believe 
> I hadn't heard that one before.)



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