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>Submission
>1) The act of submitting to the power of another 2) The state of being
>submissive or compliant 3) The act of submitting something for consideration
>Submittal
>1) The condition of having yielding or surrendering (oneself) to the will or
>authority of another 2) The act of subjecting to some condition or process
>3) Something committed to the consideration or judgement of another
Makes it pretty clear that a submission is an act or state, not an object.
My manuscript can't, by these definitions, be a submission.
I wouldn't refer to it as "my submittal" either, because that sounds odd to me.
That leaves "the manuscript I sent you" as my choice. ...RM
Richard Mateosian Freelance Technical Writer
srm -at- c2 -dot- org Copyright 1996 Review Editor, IEEE Micro http://www.c2.org/~srm/ All rights reserved President, Berkeley STC
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