>>Bottom line for me: When I edit something that has "recurse," I will change it. When I read something using "recurse," it will lower my opinion of the writer.
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>OK, feel free to edit out all occurrences of the word "recurse", but please be so kind as to find a better alternative than "recur". If an editor pulled that on me, I would not be favorably impressed.
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Fair enough, and I probably wouldn't simply replace "recurse" with "recur." More likely, I'd rework the sentence to avoid using a verb for the idea and use "recursion" or "recursive."

Tamar