RE: Spelling

[Enrico SARTORI <sartori@nea.fr>]

I took John Hamrick's comment as an elegant way of telling the "spell
checkers" to look up their dictionaries. No, they persist - where is the
sense of humour? OK, I shall delete the 'spelling thread' before reading
it in the future. I shall read only what concerns radiation safety, I
promise!
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> From: Dave Derenzo [SMTP:dave@uic.edu]
> 
> The first two are right but I'm not certain about the last.  I do not 
> profess to be a grammar expert.  Questions . . .  Is "x ray" one or two 
> words?  Is "x-ray" one or two words?
> 
> At 03:47 PM 02/29/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >The x rays from the x-ray machine were discovered by Roentgen, who named
> >them X-rays.
> >
> >Did I get that right?
> >
> >John Hamrick
> >Umetco Minerals Corporation
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