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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 03:26:15 +0000
From:      Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net/cvsupit Makefile
Message-ID:  <20000530032614.A16325@happy.checkpoint.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000529130342.A69019@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:03:42PM -0700
References:  <200005291952.MAA74888@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000529130342.A69019@wopr.caltech.edu>

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On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:03:42PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 12:52:18PM -0700, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> 
> >   Log:
> >   pedantry: spell FreeBSD.org capitalised thusly
> 
> Counter-pedantry:  "Thus" is an adverb already.

"Thusly" is an acceptable adverb; Merriam-Webster dates it to 1865.

It's usually used at the end of a sentence just as Tim used it,
and is interchangeable with "thus".

-- 
Anatoly Vorobey,
mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton


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