Re: Deprecated - is it a word?

["Laura Lemay" <llemay -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 3/2/06, John Cornellier <jcornellier -at- abingdon -dot- oilfield -dot- slb -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm in the UK, and I was about to write in some release notes that a
> given feature was "deprecated". Someone said  "Americans don't use this
> word". Can any of you left-ponders confirm or deny this, and if the
> former, what is the alternative? I'm sceptical as it gets 21 million
> returns in Google and has a lengthy entry in Wikipedia.

Extremely common in American developer documentation.  Proceed.

Laura

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