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- From: glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund)
- Subject: Re: "Registrating" or "Registration"?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:03:30 GMT
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- etxsvkl@garboa03.ericsson.se (Svante Kleist) writes:
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- > imagine that something is registered somewhere, e.g. a report is
- > registered at an office.
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- > 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 registration office.
- Certainly not Registrating, although this form of some words comes up a lot
- lately in the US.
- Perhaps "The registering office" would be an office which is registering
- for something.
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