Re: Two-words and one-words GUI elements

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 26 Apr 2008, at 18:40, Shaun McCance wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:50 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> > My guess would be that it's to get around the fact that "check" is
> > largely an Americanism[1].  (Would be interesting to try and get in
> > touch with the authors of the Apple/MS style guides to hear their
> > rationale in some cases, though... wonder if any of our doc writers  
> > at
> > Sun have some contacts there.)
>
> Well, are your old doc guys still around?  Maybe
> you could ask Pat or Eugene what their rationale
> was when the terminology recommendations were
> first made.

FWIW, I did try, but the email addresses I have for them seem to be  
bouncing these days.  Will ask around a bit more as I'm sure somebody  
here will have some more up-to-date contact details...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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