Re: [PATCH] Pedantry.

Jonathan Lundell (jlundell@pobox.com)
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:46:34 -0700

At 10:21 AM +0100 2001-07-12, David Woodhouse wrote:
>AFAIK "Uncompressing" is not a real word even in American.

Sure it is, on the grounds of established usage, and on the grounds
of reasonable analogies (undo, unwrap, &c).

-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.
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