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Subject:RE: capitalization of 'web' From:"Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:07:27 -0000
>Photocopy technology was largely replaced by photostatic ("stat" in the
>trade) technology long before the Haloid Xerox Company made the latter
>obsolete when they introduced xerography (originally xerigraphy, by the
>way). Once in a while, on this side of the pond, we actually call
things
>by the right term (not often, I realize). When was the last time you
>sawa an actual photocopy, other than in courtroom dramas from the
1930s?
So what +is+ the US term for what we over here call a photocopier?
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