The phrase that rankles me is "software program". Isn't software always a
program? Can you have software without it being a program? Why not just say
"software"?

Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 10:53 PM Tom Brennan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like,
> "All your payroll needs in a single software."
> Hurts my ears :)
>
> https://www.paycom.com/learn-more/why-paycom/
>
> On 6/7/2022 3:17 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
>
> > A related pet peeve: "a software". Nobody but nobody says "a hardware".
>
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