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• Subject: Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:34:00 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), jeni@j..., xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <3DA16ACF.5010505@e...> from "Patrick Durusau" at Oct 07, 2002 07:06:55 AM

Patrick Durusau scripsit:

> Ah, but the proper acronym is JITTs (note the little "s" on the end). 

It looks like a plural (and etymologically I assume is a plural) and it's
flatly ungrammatical to make nominal compounds with the regular plural
ending embedded in them ("mouse-eater", "rat-eater", ?"mice-eater",
*"rats-eater").

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