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  3. From: emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
  4. Subject: Re: Learning the ropes of "Ins and Outs"
  5. In-Reply-To: au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 25 Jan 1993 21:21:44 GMT
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  12. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:49:30 GMT
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  15. In article <1k1ll8INNjkm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn) writes:
  16.  
  17.    In a previous article, baron@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Baron) says:
  18.  
  19.    db:
  20.    >So what do you do with do's and don'ts
  21.  
  22.    I'd do just what you have done. Two of three dictionaries I checked give
  23.    "do's" as the preferred plural over "dos." The third only lists "do's."
  24.    I wonder whether that's because the Spanish _dos_ is so familiar to English
  25.    speakers or because "do's" simply looks better beside "don'ts."
  26.  
  27. the spanish isn't intrinsically familiar to english speakers.  in canada
  28. it's more likely to be compared with french, which has no "dos" familiar
  29. enough that i'd potentially confuse it.
  30.  
  31. i vote for the "looks better" part.
  32. --
  33. Hume Smith                                Honour sick and davey cris-cross
  34. hume.smith@acadiau.ca                     McTruloff sentimie
  35. emcoop@bnr.ca                             A parsnip inner pair threes.
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