Re: Past tense of...wha'?

On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> Hmm... no one has corrected "depreciated" to "deprecated" yet, so I will:
> 
> Assets get depreciated, tags get deprecated. :-)

Now this is interesting. Since I first used the word on this list, I might
as well say this: 

I wasn't quite sure how to write the thing. But I remembered the -n option
in shutdown(8) was deprec[i]ated in the latest released I installed the
other day, so I

$man 8 shutdown

'ed and there it was. Well, someone must now this better than me, I
thought. So there it is. You can laugh now. Or should I say laff?

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