Facsimulation, though, has no Google hits! You can have this word if you
want it, Sellam. A small gift for all you've done good...
Bill
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> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 19:26
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Replicas - was Re: *** Ideas needed for developing
> interactive displays....
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>
> > >They clearly mark it as a replica on the accompanying plaque
> (and give me
> > >credit to boot :) I would agree here that it was "better"
> than the real
> > >thing since the users could actually see it working in a reasonable
> > >facsimilation (I made up that word).
> >
> > When? Google's already got 563 hits for it, there's a webmag
> there (split
> > between Florida and BC, Canada)...
>
> I don't know. I use Merriam-Webster's Online, which has slowly degraded
> over time in terms of good results since they want you to pay for better
> access I guess. At any rate, they didn't have that form of the word,
> though it seems perfectly valid to me.
>
> > Or are you just looking to patent it, a la M$ patenting using a
> tab key in
> > a browser, or somesuch? :-P
>
> Well, if there's money to be made then sure :)
>
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