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<div class="gmail_extra">If you want to spare some time it would be nice to start documenting this in the wiki (proposal et al). Btw., I'd prefer your suggestion "launch_pad" (1x) and not the scarsely used "launchpad" (7x), as the latter is a brand and the former is the correct spelling for the rocket take off thingy.</div>

</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">​I think we hit a "divided by a common language" situation here. From the dictionaries I found, "launchpad" appears to be perfectly acceptable (and, it appeared to me, the preferred spelling) in American English.</div>

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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Scott​</div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>Scott Rollins, <<a href="mailto:organist@gmail.com" target="_blank">organist@gmail.com</a>><br>

Portsmouth, VA
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