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Subject:Re: Menu bar or Menubar? From:Ed Gregory <edgregory -at- home -dot- com> To:"David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:01:22 -0500
handle car -or- handlebar
candy bar -or- candybar
lum bar -or- lumbar
Seriously, though. I would not write menubar, just as I would not write
formattingbar or standardbar or tablesbar and bordersbar.
Now, if we were writing German I might well string all of the nouns
together to form a single word. Jedoch auf englisch würde ich "menu
toolbar" oder "menu bar" schreiben.