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[Laurence Horn]

At 10:00 AM -0500 2/6/11, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
>Thanks to Paul for doing this research.
>
>A separate entry for "rugged weather" still seems like overkill to
>me. Anyone could figure out the meaning of "rugged weather" from the
>other definition in the same way that one could figure out "rugged
>toilet training" or "rugged oral exam". But I bow to the
>professional opinion of AMERICAN HERITAGE--if this isn't something
>they put in to see if other dictionary makers plagiarized their
>triviality.
>
>If they took this out, they would have room for "snood"!
>

I demand a separate subentry for external hard drives.  My "LaCie
Rugged Hard Disk" is officially (according to the box) an
"All-Terrain Hard Disk".  I assume that unrugged external drives are
only capable of proceeding on ordinary paved roads or desks.

LH

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