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From: Rudeney on 4 Dec 2008 11:05
Patty Winter wrote:
> In article <gh682d$c9j$1(a)news.motzarella.org>,
> Rudeney <rudeney(a)mickeypics.com> wrote:
>> Ginny Favers wrote:
>>> Oh, and "setup" in the verb form is actually two words, and is probably
>>> two words or hyphenated when used as a noun (if it's allowed at all,
>>> guess it depends on your editor), but we'll let you slide.
>> I believe that it has now become acceptable as a single word for both
>> verb and noun forms.
>
> Ah, um, citation, please?
>
> The companies I work for (e.g. Apple and Symantec) are certainly
> showing no signs of accepting "setup" as a verb. They either have
> it as "set up" in their style guides directly, or they tell people
> to use Webster's New Collegiate for word spellings, where it is
> also listed as two words. Oh, and the noun is a single word, not
> hyphenated. To summarize: "Please set up my computer today" and
> "That's a nifty setup you've got."
>
> Back to writing an Apple white paper now... :-)

We had a discussion about this at work once and I can't remember the
source (and a quick web search isn't finding it, either). Basically,
the argument dealt with spoken inflection. Normally, a two-word verb
that is a verb-preposition combination tends to be "colloquial" or
"slang" and both words get equal stress as in, "Please don't mess up my
hair." The two-word verb "set up" is not always spoken with the same
stress. When you say, "Please set up my computer," do you say "setup"
or "set up"? Most people (other than those with strong Southern
accents) generally do not put stress on both words and that was the
source's argument for it being one word instead of two.

--

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Next WDW Vacation?
Who knows...
From: Keane on 5 Dec 2008 12:59
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:06:33 -0500, Ginny Favers
<ginnyfavers(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Keane found way more than me! Keane, you win.
>
>What does he win?

The hearty handshake and the pat on the back.

Or maybe not even that. We didn't even a mention for
proofing all of Rodney's mistakes on radp.org... :-)

(The way to effectively proofread is to read it backwards.
Really.)

Keane
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One of them is this, They have the power to make a wish come true...
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