Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:54:26 +0000, Mike Barnes
<mikebarnes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In uk.culture.language.english, Peter Duncanson wrote:
>>On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:54 +0000, Peter Duncanson
>><mail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>The installer wants to install the file in the directory:
>>>
>>Showing my age! directory = folder
>
>Well they might be in this case but not in every case. It's a mistake to
>assume that directory = folder.
>
>See for instance the "Control Panel" folder (which AFAIK is not a
>directory) in the "My Computer" folder (which AFAIK isn't a directory
>either). Then there's C:\RECYCLER which is a directory but not normally
>a folder in its own right but a contributor to the "Recycle Bin" folder.

Confusing isn't it.

I get the impression that in MS-user-interface-speak the word
"directory" has been dropped.

-- 
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in uk.culture.language.english)