Your right, it should be illegal to confuse the already confused.  I found a
list of all the "special" mnumonics under one of the appendix's (Quick
Reference) of the MPASM help file

Patrick J wrote:

> Arghhh, that should be illegal to use in examples !
> Newbies like me might spend hours and hours trying to figure
> out what that is :-)
>
> From: "Bob Ammerman"
> > These are actually synonyms for other instructions. For example, SKPNC is
> > really "BTFSC STATUS,C".
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