On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:03:54PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: > > > >this was probably meant to be "aforementioned". > >jmc > > > And you could take out all the agony by saying: > "in the same address space as the revisions mentioned above" > Mind you, abovementioned is found in many dictionaries and some copy > editors insist on above-mentioned. >
you're right...i wrote my original mail without having any dictionaries to hand. i cannot really think of ever having heard "above-mentioned", but it's in the oxford style guide, right enough. > I prefer rearrangement for simplicity to remove irritation. ;) > but then we would not get to use words like aforesaid and aforementioned, both of which are much classier than "the thing i said before" or "the stuff above". jmc
