On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:45:45 GMT, Rick Cook
wrote:

Oh, there's no doubt about that. That's what the Web is so good at:
publishing mistakes, intentional or otherwise, and then multiplying them ad
nauseum.

In this case it's not a mistake. It's a fairly widely used convention.
The fact that it doesn't appear in the style books is certainly
probative, but under the circumstances not determinative.

A quick Google Net search turns up about 8,780,000 hits for "idiot".
A quick Google groups search gets about 2,530,000 hits for "idiot".

Which is correct?
--
Cliff