[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:30:22 -0700, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:19:31 -0700, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:

I recently read that younger people are referring to
the way they input data on computers and phones

"Enter" data, not "input" it. Why create a new usage when
existing words are fine?

I have a problem with Enter too. It actually means to go into,
not to put something into. Insert would be more apposite.

I don't know. If you were asked in 1955 to enter your name and address on a
form, you wouldn't have thought it odd usage.

Insert implies a slot or container.


Forms - don't get me started. There was a time when we used to fill
forms in. Now we are required to fill them out. What on earth is all
that about.

d