The Associated Press Stylebook (AP) disagrees as does The Microsoft Manual
of Style for Technical Publications. Those are just two quick sources I
found. I'm not sure as to the authority of the grammarist site, but the
majority of English professors would object to the FCC's use of the
rd. -5 points for incorrect usage!
Paul, W9AC
-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Lester
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 7:25 PM
To: Group RFI
Subject: Re: [RFI] WallyHome?
From the site grammarist.com:
"When they are synonymous with named or called, there is no substantive
difference between entitled and titled. Some people object to this use
entitled, but the objection is baseless. The use of entitled to mean named
goes back centuries, and entitled was in fact the preferred term until
recently."
So this time, at least, the Gov't agency did get it right. :-)
Howard N7SO
"The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has released a
technical report *entitled*, "Measurements of Environmental
Electromagnetic
Fields at Amateur Radio Stations."
It scares me that a U.S. Government agency cannot distinguish between the
words "titled," and "entitled."
Paul, W9AC
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