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Subject:Re: Fun Pairs -- mute point vs. moot point From:Beth Agnew <bagnew -at- INSYSTEMS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:59:41 -0400
This person with the English degree from Oxford who feels "mute point" is
an acceptable variation on "moot point" is mistaken. She ought to know
better. Giving it a definition is rationalizing its misuse. Now, if she
wants to coin a _new_ term, "mute point", that's entirely different. (You
should know _why_it's different.) This sounds like one of those urban
legends -- apocryphal stories that become ingrained in the culture. Are we
now going to have urban etymology?
--Beth
Beth Agnew
Senior Technical Writer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
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