Digital Analogue
Comments: Onward
I've always been a little fuzzy on this one, but I think it's "troupers" rather than "troopers" when used in that way. I've seen it both ways, though, but I think "troopers" is kind of like "should of" rather than "should have." Anyone else know for sure?
Posted by Greg at 8:28am on 30 Jul 2005
It is troupers. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=trouper
Posted by lee at 7:04pm on 1 Aug 2005
Or troopers: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=trooper (see def'n 3)
Posted by blahedo at 7:23pm on 1 Aug 2005

Broken Lizard named their first film "Super Troopers". So if you consider a wacky comedy group the definitive source for English spelling, this discussion is over. :-)

Posted by ansible at 8:01pm on 1 Aug 2005

BTW, glad to see you read Joel Spolsky.

While I consider some of his basic premises rather wacky (like programming in VB is a good thing), he's got a lot of solid practical advice on running a software business.

James

Posted by ansible at 8:05pm on 1 Aug 2005