>>> On 4/10/2014 at 08:47 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: 
> ... just the sort
> of thing to be expected from people who use subliterate synonyms for
> 'conformity' like 'conformance'.   (This wholly dispensable non-word
> got into circulation in  HTML and XHTML documents, from which it has
> infected others.

According to my dictionary, you're going to have to use a time machine and go 
back to the 1600's if you really want to attack the origins of that word.  
Probably not worth the effort.


Mark Post

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