Re: USAGE: English, Masculine, Feminine
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 3:57 |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:30:44 -0400, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
>
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:57:49PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>> > A dissenting message, from a Midwesterner who's spent a lifetime
> sluffing
>> > (??)
>>
>> Standard spelling of that is "sloughing".
>
> Are we correcting spelling on this list when people don't ask for it?
>
I, for one, took the "(??)" as a question as to the right spelling.
Paul
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