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Subject:RE: once or twice... From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:41:32 -0600
Robert Hodgins wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-16-10 at 12:31 -0400, Susan Hogarth wrote:
> > Has anyone come across the usage 2ce or 1ce as a form of the words
> > twice or once?
>
> It seems to be quite common. I just did a search in Google. I
> got 17500 hits. Many of the hits use 1ce and 2ce as you describe.
Hmm. I just searched for "1ce 2ce" (sans quotes) and got 23,000. But
only 5 of the first 20 are this usage (including, interestingly, Lauren
Tariel's reply on this thread). Most seem to be sizes/settings/codes in
a spec sheet or tech doc. The ones that are this usage don't inspire
confidence, either. Do you really want to use someone who says "WUD GO
BACK" as a language reference? :-)
In any case, 17,500 or 23,000 is not common, it's quite rare, and if
only a quarter of those are this usage,that's exceedingly rare. A search
on "once twice" (sans quotes) returns about 84,500,000. A search on
"once" alone returns 686,000,000.
Personally, I'm relieved that they're rare. I think "1ce" an
abomination. Not only is it confusing in many fonts, but it's also a
rather pointless piece of ugliness, saving just one lousy character.
Curmudgeons 'R Us
Richard
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