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-----Original Message----- From: Judith Thamm [mailto:galing...@chariot.net.au] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:59 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>Re:Preventative Tisk Marshalee, Tisk Tisk! > (By the way, for the Newbies out there, who missed my rant of several months > ago, the word is "preventive", not "preventatative", > ie.what CS is so good at doing!) > OK, I`ll shut up for now!!! :o) > Love, > Marshalee My 3 nearest dictionaries [each is a standard doorstop weight ;) ] say : DK Illustrated Oxford Dictionary lists preventative before preventive Reader's Digest Complete Word Finder: lists preventative before preventive The Macquarie Dictionary: [standard Australian reference] preventive [& gives definitions] then says: Also preventative. [I collect dictionaries, just BTW.] Regards, Judith. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
