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Subject:Re: how to up...grade? From:Sue Heim <sue -at- RIS -dot- RISINC -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:00:34 PST
Bobby Collins wondered:
> I can't find, in any of my sources, how to spell "upgradeable", or
> "upgradable."
> A 1986 grammar text gives the rule to drop an e before adding a
> vowel-beginning suffix.
> Wordperfect 6.1 and AmiPro 3.1 both say neither is right, and
> it'snot a word!!
> Is it just jargon?
Likely it *is* jargon. I wouldn't use it anyways. Can you write
around it? For example, instead of saying "Product X is easily
upgradable" you could simply say "Product X is easily upgraded."
Since you didn't provide any more info on how you were using it as a
word... (and btw, I checked my sources -- including Word -- and it
isn't a word anywhere).
...sue
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Sue Heim
Research Information Systems
Carlsbad, California USA
Email: Sue -at- ris -dot- risinc -dot- com
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