At 11:27 AM 4/15/2010, Loren Busch wrote:
>Mark has a good point here.  In the 1950's the US Navy did a study on the
>value of 'preventative maintenance' on electrical and electronic devices.

Personal non-official request -- It's "preventive" and my teeth itch
slightly when I see it spelled the other way.  Dunno why this one
bothers me so -- as a kid in Maine "drownded" was the common usage
and I just thought that was cute.  Still do, along with "skellington"
which I heard from a kid in England and was the common illiterate
usage in 18th c.

Of course if you can get "preventate" into common use then I'm the
past tense of a male helical-threaded fastener. <g>

Yours,
d