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From: Nancy.Gendell
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 1994 17:54

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Have I been out to lunch and missed a rule change? In recent months I have
noticed many (well, 7 or 8) cases of "english" (lower case), as in "english
composition," "english class," etc. Mostly I just tsk-tsked and muttered about
people so lazy they couldn't use a shift key. (They weren't in any of "my"
jobs, after all.) But now one has turned up in a manuscript I am editing and
the author insists "this the way it's done now." True? And if so, since when?
Or, more to the point, why?
Nancy Gendell
Dept of Resource Development/MSU

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