dogfooding

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Ken Hirsch <kenhirsch at ftml.net> wrote:
>
> The Microsoft programmer Raymond Chen sometimes writes about "Microspeak"
> on his blog "The Old New Thing". It might be interesting if you're on the
> prowl for new usage.
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=microspeak+site%3Ablogs.msdn.com%2Fb%2Foldnewthing

Closer to home, Mike Pope is a language-savvy technical writer/editor
for Microsoft who contributes to the online magazine of the Visual
Thesaurus (which I edit). He wrote about "dogfooding" in an article
about Microspeak in 2009:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/2058/

--bgz

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