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Which English expression is correct?
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14 June 2012 at 11:26pm | IP Logged

fiziwig wrote:

I vote for:

"... delivered to us as a PDF [file]." <-- first choice with word "file" being
optional. Although technically redundant, most people don't know that, so I'd say using
"file" is perfectly O.K.

"... delivered to us in PDF format." <-- not as good as the first, but O.K.

Actually PDF stands for Portable Document Format, so technically PDF
format is the redundant one. And much like other RAP phrases, e.g. ATM machine, PIN
number; the abbreviation has in many contexts been reanalyzed so that the redundancy
sounds perfectly natural to most people.

I would most likely just use in PDF, or as a PDF file if I wanted to be
more formal.

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