Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT: Re: Eclipse spell checker omissions Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 00:06:10 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <2ptyczln7x.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pei3zkhw1.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pvcx9igb2.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pr57xibe6.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <4dd2aa9d$0$2505$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net WGEIxX8u96Hk8lZk60dhFn8Z6ZoidAlTRqRDYp2PrBtjmuKS3frRnToZKgOo9APDuR2MiU44Wi4uXMS0n6BoyQwi1rKUwe8rq1JMJhRUQTsnIcI9+avUVZHN6naBQE10 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 04:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="1hrpjHPQ3Qm0VzB9erBSNFpjcTMMVrn0NL17ZrvON7QiP+Ye/8ggKaRgieeWEKfM/6Uq6oV5uxNC9qFgVoDo9zkq5nMQHLkgyC/lkrsN/4EslQT1EhIoZRng5o1liQdR"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <4dd2aa9d$0$2505$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:3dTTYHhcrjLb4ATcXeDNts2wPO8= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4238 RedGrittyBrick wrote: > Lew wrote: >> "Plugin" exists in the wild, and is documented by some as an alternate >> spelling. Within a couple of years, I predict, it will be widely >> accepted, just as "resume" is for "résumé" today, and for the same reason. >> >> Loss of the hyphen to become a true compound word is an historically >> frequent occurrence. > The day co-operative and coöperative became cooperative, did coopers? No, they were coopted. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg