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>>>>> On 13 Apr 92 22:45:48 GMT, bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster) said:

	BFW> Worse yet, the writer might have had it right, but a copy
	BFW> editor then might have seen "Mach operating system
	BFW> kernel", assumed that "Mach" was a typo for "Mac", and
        BFW> made the 'correction' to "Macintosh". Don't laugh; I've
	BFW> had copy editors do worse to me (usually caught in the
	BFW> galleys, thank goodness). 

Boy, is this true. I'm a linguist (!= speaker of lots of languages),
and while working on a book of mine some years ago, a copy editor
decided that the word "umlaut" should have an umlaut (on the "a", as
it happens). It took several days to excise all of the spurious
umlauts from the page proofs of a 400+ page book, much of which was
about umlaut (not umla"ut) phenomena in Icelandic..... mach-->Mac
sounds all too plausible.

Never underestimate the capacity to do harm of someone whose job it is
to correct the "lapses" of an author.

--Steve Anderson