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Reenter?

Reenter?

Reenter?

(OP)
"Reenter you password" is a phrase that bugs me, maybe rightly so or maybe not.

This is, of course, what Big Bill says when we try to password protect our Excel spreadsheets.

Personally I feel more comfortable with "Re-enter you password", but am i worng?

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RE: Reenter?

I gave up trying to find the door on my passwords long ago...

Bung
Life is non-linear...

RE: Reenter?

I'd prefer "Re-enter your password" over either of the above, but I'm not sure that hyphenation is required. (Reenter is in the dictionary sans hyphen)

fun with hyphens:
http://www.telp.com/editing/hyphen.htm

RE: Reenter?

Re-enter certainly looks better, reads better, and is just as correct grammatically as reenter.  My preference is for the hyphen, but then I tend to use the optional commas too.  Sometimes semicolons, when feeling daring.

- Ben T.

RE: Reenter?

Re-enter is good. Lynne Truss says so.

RE: Reenter?

OK -- I'll bite.  Who is Lynn Truss?  Actually it is not germaine because Lynn is right since I also like Re-enter.  You might ask, "who are you to say?"  And I would of course have to reply, "nobody."

Jesus is THE life,
Leonard

RE: Reenter?

"Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"

TTFN

RE: Reenter?

IRstuff

Eats shoots and leaves.
Isn't that what a Koala does for dinner?

RE: Reenter?

Read that thread

TTFN

RE: Reenter?

Still haven't figured out how you even enter a passwor. Or is the use of "enter" in this sense a re-definition of the original word, which I have always understood to mean, roughly, "go into"?

Bung
Life is non-linear...

RE: Reenter?

don't be so intransitive, bung.

transitive senses of "enter," from m-w.com
1 : to come or go into <enter a room>
2 : INSCRIBE, REGISTER <enter the names of qualified voters>
3 : to cause to be received or admitted <enter a child at a school>
4 : to put in : INSERT <enter the new data into the computer>
5 a : to make a beginning in <enter politics> b : to go into (a particular period of time) <enter middle age>
6 : to become a member of or an active participant in <enter the university> <enter a race>
7 : to make report of (a ship or its cargo) to customs authorities
8 : to place in proper form before a court of law or upon record <enter a writ>
9 : to go into or upon and take actual possession of (as land)
10 : to put formally on record <entering a complaint>

RE: Reenter?

or, uh, intransigent, as the case may be.

RE: Reenter?

So re-enter rather than reenter...
Heh heh heh...
If I send the same Outlook message twice, would that be called re-e-mail, ree-mail, re-email or reemail?

RE: Reenter?

I thought it had to be re-enter since a reenter is the person in the Loisinana apartment.

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