Thanks all for your responses. I've come to the conclusion that the
particular acquisitions editor concerned was misusing the word, and in my
ignorance at the time (it was my own full-length work 10 years ago (in
which, incidentally I forecast that the Internet 'might" become big!)) I
assumed it was jargon I should know.


"TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message
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That's a new one on me too. I've only ever heard of it used in Australia &
New Zealand, never in a typographical context.

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wrote in message ...
: No. It was the name one of my publishers gave to an icon of a computer
at
: the end of chapters to signify same. I've never seen the word before or
: since.
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: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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: "Fair dinkum" is the only association I have with it. Google provides
a
: lot
: of interesting links, but they seem to be universally derived from
that
: same
: usage. Are you sure you're not thinking of "lorem ipsum"? See
: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DummyText.htm
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: Suzanne (or anyone else): Have you ever come across the word 'dinkum'
in
: the
: context of Word/editing/book production? (Not the Australian term
'fair
: dinkum')
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