On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Frank Mayhar wrote: #"Fungible." # #Ugly, yet almost entirely useless. Of course it's used quite commonly #among software folks, particularly those with advanced degrees, who should #really know better. Roughly, 'interchangeable'. The word is significant and useful in economics. Dollars are fungible: it doesn't matter where they came from or what their serial numbers are, you can use them all the same way. Oil is (may be) largely fungible. Baseball players are not fungible, even if they hit fungoes for practice. Mushrooms are definitely not fungible. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel