Mark, The OED documents the fact that the locution "them guys" has been in wide use in certain circles since Chaucer's day, but it remains substandard. Antiquity does not confer respectability.
The word 'conformance' entered our subculture with the HTML and XHTML documents, and it is entirely dispensable. It does no work that 'conformity' does not do better. More generically, let me observe that you are not really leading from strength in picking just this sort of fight with me; but if you want to pursue it, I'm quite willing to do so. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
