Sacrificing factual fidelity for flow

[Dave Hause]

Aside from personally seeing no difference in the two meanings, if I were
writing for TV news persons to read, I'd bet on them being more likely to
correctly pronounce "became" than "debuted."
Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
Waynesville, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>

The first synthesizer became commercially available in 1964.

My understanding of this is that the likely interpretation is that "the
first commercially available synthesizer debuted in 1964",

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