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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
- Subject: Re: "Registrating" or "Registration"?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:20:18 GMT
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- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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- 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.)
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- "The Registrar's Office"?
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- Seth L. Blumberg \ "The whole thing was an accident. No saboteur
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ could have been so wildly optimistic as to think
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ he could destroy an airplane this way."
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
-