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>Microsoft monitors it. I also exchange some emails with them every year about mentioning potential new MVP here. In the last year, I just didn't have as much time as the other year. This is one thing I have to do this month about sending emails to recommend new MVPs.>>>
>>>You should have done it a couple of weeks ago, Michel. The deadline for nominating for the April award period was January 16th. Oh well! =0(
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>>>BTW, I nominated someone. Don't know if they'll get it, so I don't want to say more.
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>>I hope you let the person know you nominated them, whether or not they get the award. Recognition by a respected peer can mean as much or more than recognition by an official award. If not as remunerative ;-)
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>>Well, I'll be darned. The spell checker just led me to check and verify the spelling of the last word. All this time I have thought it is renumerative.
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>I think it is a common error - confusing the two words. Although renumerative is not a word, the root suggests it could be -- perhaps something that could numbered or counted again?
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>Eventually it will be added to the dictionary, because I've read it every now and then. Here's an example:
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http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004082.html>
>Even the brits use it as a word (see chart at bottom):
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http://www.n-somerset.gov.uk/Social+care/Housing+and+council+tax+benefit/Your+household/nondependents.htm>
>Where's Terry? :o)
When I read "Even the brits use it" my immediate thought was, I can think of one who probably doesn't ;-)
There was an interesting column in the Tribune the other day by Mary Schmich, who is a bit of a language maven (although of course not as much of one as Terry ;-) ), saying Barack Obama -- who she concedes is eloquent -- has brought the word "enormity" into acceptable misuse all by himself. She contends it does NOT mean "big," it means "monstrous wickedness." She says the word he should be using is "enormousness." Personally I hope she's wrong because enormousness sounds clunkier than enormity.
So now we have another major issue of the Obama era, to go along with what kind of dog they should get ;-) Sorry, another ENORMOUS issue....
