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Re: [Nmh-workers] maildrop vs mail drop in man pages
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] maildrop vs mail drop in man pages |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:34:54 +0000 |
Hi Larry,
> Can I get a ruling, please, on the use of 'maildrop' vs 'mail drop' in
> the man pages?
>
> A quick search shows 25 current instances of 'maildrop' (not counting
> $MAILDROP), as against 19 for 'mail drop'.
Google's Ngram's viewer clearly favours "mail drop".
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mail+drop%2Cmaildrop&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2200&corpus=15&smoothing=3
So do I, with it being hyphenated as a compound adjective, e.g. "a file
in mail-drop format".
I spy the odd "mail drop box". I'm guessing these can be simplified to
"mail drop".
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mail_drop
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/drop_box
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Cheers, Ralph.
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