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Subject:online vs. on-line, again From:Kelly Hoffman <kelly -at- NASHUA -dot- HP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 26 Oct 1993 13:42:13 EDT
Nancy Burns <nburns -at- NOAO -dot- EDU> writes:
> [examples preferring "online" omitted]
> All of which contradicts the American Heritage Dictionary's listing [for
> "on-line"] (which is grammatically correct), but supports other TECHWR-L
> comments about omitting the hyphen for reasons of common usage and
readability.
This, of course (obviously? :-), begs the question: when does usage
become "common"?
-- Kelly
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Kelly K. Hoffman kelly -at- nashua -dot- hp -dot- com
Learning Products Engineer
Hewlett-Packard, Network Test Division "Reading the manual is
One Tara Blvd., Nashua, NH 03062 admitting defeat."
