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Subject:Re: punctuation et al. rules From:Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:18:58 -0500
Re: litres
Pbtbth! ;-)
I'm in the states, so if I'm writing professionally I spell it liters.
But I spent my first couple of years of school in the UK, so if I'm not
thinking about it, a lot of my spellings come out Brit.
Gene: Good point. I believe we do have a subscription and I'll see if I can
find it or find someone who can access it for me. Thanks for the suggestion.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> IEEE standards address terminology for everything electrical or
> electronic. They're not accessible for free, but if you're working for a
> chip design company they should have a subscription.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> On 2/21/2017 12:16 PM, Lin Sims wrote:
>
>> It would be, but luckily I don't have to deal with litres in this job, as
>> I
>> work for a chip design company.
>>
>> But yeah. Not a choice I'd have gone with. Why can't everyone do things my
>> way? After all, I'm always right.*
>>
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