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Robert Lieblich <lieblich@erols.com> wrote in article
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> moonman3@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > Evan Morris wrote:
> 
> > > Attack of the literaloids. The bit about "anyone know any?" was a 
> > >joke.  J O K E.  Hahaha.  Remember?
> > 
> > Nice try, but this tact is usually reserved for the clueless.
> 
> I learned to use "tack," meaning a particular course, literally if one 
> is sailing, metaphorically in contexts such as this.  But I have heard 
> "tact" used so often that I think it justified to take the temperature 
> of the group.  So . . .
> 
> Who says "tack"?  Who says "tact"?  Comments along with answers are 
> welcomed, indeed expected.

I say "tack" when I mean "course", but "tactic" seems to work better in the
example sentence.  Guessing from what I've heard (and read in newspapers)
there may be large numbers of people who now use "tact" as a shortened form
of "tactic".