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From: Stanton T. Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 08:10:24 -0300
Fwd Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 12:39:38 -0400
Subject: Re: Time to retire 'Ufologist', 'Ufology'

>Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:02:59 -0400
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: Time to retire "UFOlogist, UFOlogy"


UFO UpDates - Toronto wrote:

> >From: SGB List 2 <SGBList2@aol.com>
> >Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 13:09:03 EDT
> >To: updates@globalserve.net
> >Subject: Time to retire "UFOlogist, UFOlogy"

> >It is time to retire the term "UFOlogist". While lights in the sky
> >are always of some interest, the field deals with objects which are
> >identified - identified by their being piloted direclty or
> >indirectly by non-human intelligence.

> Before we agree to retire the words, we need to come to consenus
> on how the words should be spelt (spelled?).

> English, which we all speak and many of us write, I believe has
> no other words beginning with more than one capital letter.

> Spelling these two words with the first three letters capitalised
> creates pronunciation confusion. Listen to any V.O. reader in
> UFO-related documentaries. What the hell is a "Yew-Eff-Ologist"?
> Is it not simpler to say "You-fologist"?

<snip>

> ebk

Right on. Think of biologist, geologist, ufologist.

STF