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April 20, 2005
And Then There Were ... 5
What about VoIP?“Complimentary” – another word describing the fact that the three recent mergers now reduce the U.S. telecom industry to five dominant players — Verizon, SBC, BellSouth Corp., Sprint and Qwest — leaving the cable TV industry as the only serious threat offering telephone services.
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Posted on April 20, 2005 09:29 PM by bellso433.
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Guess both versions worked in this case as found in the explanation below - anyways thanks for the suggestion. However whether MCI and Verizon are either - only the future will tell.
Is it complimentary or complementary?
Both of these spellings exist and are very often used in the wrong context;
Complement - always has the meaning of 'completing a set/making up a whole'. This is used when saying that a tie goes well with (complements) a shirt, for example. It is also used to describe a number of people making up a group: 'This ship has a complement of 50.'
Compliment - has two meanings. One is that someone is expressing nice things about you, saying that you or something about you looks nice (a compliment/to compliment someone); the other (when used as 'complimentary') means that something is free of charge or done as an act of courtesy.
Therefore, it would be wrong to write: 'The wine compliments the meal.' This means that the wine tells the meal how nice it is! What should be written is: 'The wine complements the meal.'
Posted by: Lukas at April 21, 2005 10:06 PM
