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Subject:Re. To ensure or not to ensure? From:Geoff Hart <geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> Date:Mon, 30 Oct 1995 12:49:43 LCL
"Ensure", "make sure" and "be certain" are all fancy ways
of saying "confirm" or "verify"; the latter two are more
precise, less passive, and less likely to confuse those to
whom English is a new acquaintance.
--Geoff Hart @8^{)}
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: If I didn't commit it in print in one of our
reports, it don't represent FERIC's opinion.
