Re: Time--Thanks. New Question....

Subject: Re: Time--Thanks. New Question....
From: Marilynne Smith <mrsmith -at- CTS -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:12:31 -0700

Using my dictionary (The American Heritage - the paper version), I find
that the root word is compressible. Using the logic that most words do not
take a hyphen when "non" is added, I would select the following version:
noncompressible.

Marilynne
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At 06:28 PM 9/8/97 EDT, Sabahat Ashraf wrote:
>On Sep 8, 11:21am, Miark wrote:
>> Subject: Time--Thanks. New Question....
>> Thanks for the responses to the time question--I've got exactly what I
>> need.
>>
>> One more question, this morning: if you were going to use the word
>> "noncompressable" in a _heading_, would you make it read
>>
>> Non-Compressable
>> Non-compressable
>> or
>> Noncompressable?
>
>Tried all of the above at: http://www.onelook.com/
>
>I was suspecting the right word was non(-)compressible, but none of the
>following turned up anything:
>
>Non-Compressable
>Non-compressable
>Noncompressable
>Non-Compressible
>Non-compressible
>Noncompressible
>Un-Compressable
>Un-compressable
>Uncompressable
>Un-Compressible
>Un-compressible
>Uncompressible
>
>or, for that matter:
>
>compressable
>
>What did generate a response was
>
>COMPRESSIBLE
>
>and here is the response [query it generated was
>"http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind2.cgi?word=compressible
&type=type_g"
>-- I wonder if that answers the thread about Unix lines of code on more than
>one line of a document?]
>
>Word Search Results
>
>General Dictionaries
>
> 1.Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition (4KB, indexed
Jan 9
>1997)
> Thanks to Gavin LaRowe
> 1.compressible
> To home page of this dictionary(1MB)
> 2.Simplicity Communications Online Dictionary (indexed Aug 1 1997)
> Thanks to Simplicity Communications
> 1.compressible
> To home page of this dictionary(3KB)
> 3.WordNet Vocabulary Helper (NotreDame) (1KB, indexed Sep 6 1996)
> Thanks to Greg Peterson
> 1.compressible
> To home page of this dictionary
>
>
>--
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