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Subject:Re: Through wins over thru From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- CORE -dot- CORP -dot- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 19 Aug 1994 17:07:49 -0500
>FYI - My original decision to
>use thru was based on the Department of Defense Technical Writing
>Style Guide, MIL-HDBK-63038-2 (TM).
I'd guess "thru" made the military handbook because it takes fewer
keystrokes to type it (much the way the dreaded "employe" has been
insidiously working its way into accepted style).
An aside: During my time in the Air Farce, we were using a specially sized
paper because someone had submitted a cost savings plan based on trimming
about .5" off the standard paper. It was demonstrated that we would save
thousands because the supplier would be able to make more sheets of this
size out of his bulk stock. As I was leaving the Air Farce, they were
adopting a cost savings proposal made by someone else which proposed saving
money by moving from the special custom-cut paper (which cost more per
sheet) to the standard 8.5 x 11 size.
The point of the story is that I wouldn't necessarily trust *anything* in a
DoD manual. ;{>}
Have Fun,
Arlen
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com
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