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Re: [xml-dev] heritage (was Re: [xml-dev] SGML on the Web)

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To: pdurusau@emory.edu
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] heritage (was Re: [xml-dev] SGML on the Web)
From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:34:00 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com (John Cowan), jeni@jenitennison.com, xml-dev@lists.xml.org (XML DEV)
In-reply-to: <3DA16ACF.5010505@emory.edu> from "Patrick Durusau" at Oct 07, 2002 07:06:55 AM

Patrick Durusau scripsit:

> Ah, but the proper acronym is JITTs (note the little "s" on the end). 

It looks like a plural (and etymologically I assume is a plural) and it's
flatly ungrammatical to make nominal compounds with the regular plural
ending embedded in them ("mouse-eater", "rat-eater", ?"mice-eater",
*"rats-eater").

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