Hi everybody!
I wonder if this spelling is the result of computer technology. Is it
possible that people started mis-typing 'manufactures' for 'manufacturers'?
Spell checking would not identify this typo AS a typo.
Any thoughts about this?
Paul E. Doniger
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From: Rabinowitz, Jennifer <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Manufacture vs. Manufacturer
> Hello, one and all--
> My hunch is that "manufactures" used in the context of a plural noun is
more
> about pretension than it is about hasty speaking by non-readers. For some
> reason, it has a kind of exalted quality to it--maybe it's something to do
> with the wierd way latin words get pluralized, or perhaps it's about that
> -re, -er thing in French pronunciation.
>
> Jenny Rabinowitz
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glauner, Jeff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:35 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Manufacture vs. Manufacturer
>
>
> Greg,
>
> I see this sort of thing in the writing of persons who don't do a lot of
> reading. They spell the word the way it sounds to them when it is
> pronounced. The hasty speaker sometimes leaves the second -er off a word
> like manufacturer. We are a long way from accepting this particular
> respelling. Spelling in English is exceedingly resistant to change. This
> misspelling might, however, mean that the pronunciation of the word is in
> flux. Pronunciation is not as resistant to change as spelling. Notice,
for
> instance, the almost complete loss of the distinctive wh- sound in
standard
> English. A large percentage of speakers now pronounces "weather" and
> "whether" as homonyms. That leads to some interesting confusion in
writing.
>
> Jeff Glauner
> Associate Professor of English
> Park University, Box 1303
> 8700 River Park Drive
> Parkville MO 64152
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Dyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Manufacture vs. Manufacturer
>
>
> Hello all --
>
> Thus far I've merely been a lurker on this list, but a recently
> submitted paper prompted me to share this rather trivial
> comment/question. A few years ago, when I was teaching a technical
> writing class for engineering majors, I began to notice students using
> the word "manufactures" as a noun in place of "manufacturers."
> Consider, for example, the following sentence: "Tire manufactures state
> the tire is worn out once it reaches this minimal tread." This use of
> the word drives me absolutely nuts, but it happens often enough that I'm
> beginning to wonder if the usage of the word has changed (or is
> changing), at least within the technical professions. Has anyone else
> noticed a similar usage?
>
> Greg Dyer
>
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