B. As an aside, is the word etymologically used correctly by G____? Websters has the definition as 1 : the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language. His quibble with my 'technology' has nothing to do with history, rather a question of use of adverbs.

Authority: New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage HarperCollins: New York. 1994. Cited with permission. p. 203.

Authority: New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage HarperCollins: New York. 1994. Cited with permission. P. 448.

Et al. is an abbreviation for et alii, which means "and others," and is used in documentation (and probably shouldn't be used elsewhere) when there are several authors of a document and you want to list only the first and then say et al.

Thank you in advance.

Julian C____ writes that the following information is in Burchfield's New Fowler's Modern English Usage:

It is a minor curiosity that "I", of all pronouns, is the only one that must always be written with a capital. As the older forms "ic", "ich", "ik", etc. gave way to the reduced form "i" during the Middle Ages, the new form was generally written as "i" or "y", and was often merged by the scribes with the verb or auxiliary it governed. With the advent of printing in the late 15c, the new form "I" soon established itself as the only standard form, though instances of small "i" can be found as late as the 17c.

Thanks so much.