Ah, but that is the beauty of the English language. It is dynamic and adaptive to new concepts and the continuing march of technology. I used to lament it, but since it cannot be stopped we should embrace the richness of its changability as a living language. In contrast, no offense intended to the French as a people and culture, but I feel they are in danger of their language becoming stilted and unusable because of an obsession with purity. Ron Woodland On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 03:40 PM, Peter Sealy wrote: > > On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 12:01 AM, Shahara9 at aol.com wrote: > >> note: I just found this news article interesting, i am not spamming >> =) >> >> >> RadTech to Ruggedize Everest Laptops >> Thursday, September 04, 2003 >> >> >> RadTech's press release describes the event: >> >> RadTech, producers of innovative solutions for mobile computing, has >> been >> selected to ruggedize Apple PowerBook and PC notebook computers to be >> used by the > > > "ruggedize" ! What next for the English language?