Re: decubiti

But who is it who decides whether it's a word or not? Isn't it the fact that
it gets used more and more as time goes on that it's then taken as a common
word. Look at some of the words that Webster's added last year.. googled
being one of them. Decubiti is a trademarked word as the name of a DME; it's
being used apparently by more and more of the medical profession, so who
makes that determination? I know that you all get to make corrections of
their notes and reports, but I do the behind the scenes transcription at the
conferences where they are having decision making meetings and use words my
spellchecker doesn't like all the time, but as doctors reviewing my work,
they do not want me fixing their "new" words EVER.

Dani

"Jeannie Wilson" <jwilson421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns973BCA906363Fjwilson421comcastnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Bam" <dearcounselor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote here for all to
> seenews:41jen8F1en5eoU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> I used to swear by Dorland's for my job.... and they tell me decubiti
>> is NOT a word :-)
>
> I won't use it either. There are many who have published their articles
> in
> journals and they have spelled it incorrectly. I have had doctors make
> fun
> of this habit - to make up their own words by using "English language
> logic". However, I have never, ever had one dispute me any longer on
> whether or not it was a word once I asked them to please provide me with a
> dictionary or something stating it was. It sort of reminds me of the
> naris, nares, nare thing.


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