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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: "Registrating" or "Registration"?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.160846.15033@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:08:46 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.)
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- I'd probably just call it the registrar's office and be done with it.
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