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I have settled for "browse to" on occasion. It seems simpler than "display
the following Web site in your browser window" and, after all, you really
don't *go* anywhere -- do you?
;-)
-Sue Gallagher
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milan Davidovic
> Regarding "browse", the MMoS says "To scan Internet
> sites or other files, either for a particular item or
> for general items of interest". If one is looking for
> a particular item, it seems that we could thus say
>
> "browse [location] for [particular item]".
>
> However,
>
> "browse to [particular item]"
>
> seems to be common (judging from search engine hits).
>
> If, for whatever reason, the location can be taken as
> understood by the reader, does the latter construction
> sound okay to you in the context of technical documentation?
>
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