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Subject:Continued prepend/perpend discussion From:Susan MacIntosh <suem -at- TRITEAL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 8 May 1996 09:21:39 -0700
Hi again,
Martyn Thirlway <thirlwaym -at- USOFT -dot- NL> wrote:
>Come on guys, has no-one got a dictionary?
You think I would post something to *this* group without looking it up
first?! ;-)
I DID look it up in the New Webster's dictionary, and Roget's
Thesaurus. I also tried the FrameMaker on-line Thesaurus. Finding no
reference, I figured it was another instance of "Engineering-ese."
The context in which I've seen it used suggests that this is true.
The definition I find for "perpend" is "A long stone or brick reaching
through the thickness of a wall and visible on both sides." We must
have vastly different dictionaries!
Sue
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