- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:13:00 -0600
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>From the Oxford English Dictionary: Idiom: 1. a. The form of speech peculiar or proper to a people or country; own language b. In narrower sense: That variety of a language which is peculiar to a limited district or class of people; dialect. [...] 3. a. A form of expression, grammatical construction, phrase, etc., peculiar to a language; a peculiarity of phraseology approved by the usage of a language, and often having a signification other than its grammatical or logical one. All of these date from the 1600s or earlier. #3 is the one closest to our current/proposed definitions. John "Good design is accessible design." John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Accessibility Institute University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu web http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/
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