From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:01:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711220102.37e70365@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107111618.16761.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:18:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > From the OED:
> >
> > reoccur: occur again or habitually
>
> I don't regard myself bound by others' ability to find earlier examples
> of the same mistake. We have 'occur', 'incur', 'concur' and 'recur'. It
> is rarely a good idea to compound prefixes.
Nor me, and I still have no idea why I used reoccur instead of recur,
brain fade induced by the hour of posting I guess.
But an admitted pedantic response deserves a reply from the OED :P
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-08 16:55 [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup Harry Putnam
2011-07-08 17:10 ` Paul Hartman
2011-07-08 18:35 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-08 21:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-08 23:40 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-09 7:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-09 10:22 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-09 11:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-09 13:31 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-10 18:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-10 22:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-11 9:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-11 15:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-11 16:26 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-07-11 16:49 ` Bill Longman
2011-07-11 22:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-11 23:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-12 1:58 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-07-12 2:27 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-07-12 9:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-11 21:01 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-07-11 23:09 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-11 23:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-12 0:04 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-09 17:56 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-10 18:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-09 17:51 ` Harry Putnam
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