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RE: [SPAM] - Re: First Thing's (?) First - Number of numbers in M IME From exceeds maximum threshold
Subject:RE: [SPAM] - Re: First Thing's (?) First - Number of numbers in M IME From exceeds maximum threshold From:Michael Strickland <Mstrickland -at- entriq -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:25:31 -0700
Or, in honor of the Bush/Kerry Memogate, I could offer up "fir^st thing's
fir^st" [where ^st = a superscript "st"], if only TECHWR-L allowed rich-text
email......
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Neilson [mailto:neilson -at- alltel -dot- net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:15 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: First Thing's (?) First - Number of numbers in MIME
>From exceeds maximum threshold
Ha! It's Friday sneaking up on us, disguised as spelling.
The apostrophe finds less use in technical writing than in grocery stores
("FRESH" CANTELOPE'S or 12 ITEM'S OR LESS) so it's natural to improve its
stature in our work. I recommend firs't things' fir'st.
> A couple of people in my department are debating the correct spelling
> of the phrase "first things first." One thinks it's as I just wrote,
> as an abbreviated version of "first things go first," and another
> thinks it's "first thing's first," as in, "the first thing is first."
> I cannot find a resource that provides a definitive answer to this.
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