Antedating of "double click" (verb and noun)
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Mar 19 01:20:08 UTC 2014
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
> two key depressions in rapid succession ("double clicking").
To pick a non-nit, "double clicking" in this definition is no more a verb
than that which it defined by, "two key depressions in rapid successions,"
is.
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-Wilson
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