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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rock!concert!unccsun.uncc.edu!UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU!ALI00BAW
  3. From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
  4. Subject: Re: "Registrating" or "Registration"?
  5. Message-ID: <16B5D10C5B.ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU>
  6. Sender: usenet@unccsun.uncc.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: unccvm.uncc.edu
  8. Organization: UNC Charlotte
  9. References:  <etxsvkl.727609846@garboa03>
  10. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:04:52 GMT
  11. Lines: 19
  12.  
  13. In article <etxsvkl.727609846@garboa03>
  14. etxsvkl@garboa03.ericsson.se (Svante Kleist) writes:
  15.  
  16. >
  17. >        Hi everybody,
  18. >
  19. >        imagine that something is registered somewhere, e.g.  a report is
  20. >        registered at an office.
  21. >
  22. >        What do you then call that office?  "The registration office"
  23. >        or "The registering office"? (I suspect the former being correct.)
  24. >
  25. >
  26. >
  27. >        /Dumb Swede.
  28. >
  29.  
  30. Try "the Registry [Office]"; or, as the person in charge of registering
  31. people/things is a Registrar, try "Registrar's Office."
  32.