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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: "Registrating" or "Registration"?
- Message-ID: <C17AuJ.AAK@demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <etxsvkl.727609846@garboa03>
- Distribution: alt
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:06:18 GMT
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- In article <etxsvkl.727609846@garboa03> etxsvkl@garboa03.ericsson.se (Svante Kleist) writes:
- : imagine that something is registered somewhere, e.g. a report is
- : registered at an office.
- :
- : What do you then call that office? "The registration office"
- : or "The registering office"? (I suspect the former being correct.)
-
- It's confusing if one office sends something to the other office to
- be registered. Which one is the 'registering office'. For that reason
- I'd probably prefer 'registration office.'
-
- G
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