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Subject:Re: To Vet or Not to Vet -Reply From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 19 Sep 1994 16:58:39 -0600
On Sat, 17 Sep 1994, Mark D. Walker wrote:
> > People around me have taken to using the word 'vet' (sp?) in the
> > context of checking and proofreading, e.g.: "Please vet this
> > document and get it back to me ASAP". That denotation does not
> > appear in any dictionary that I own. Am I spelling it wrong?
I don't know where this usage of "vet" got started, but I have been
hearing it used among students at both high school and college levels for
nearly four years so it isn't completely new.
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