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  2. From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: "Registrating" or "Registration"?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.112928.11526@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 11:29:28 GMT
  7. References: <etxsvkl.727609846@garboa03> <glen.727736610@cs.wisc.edu>
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  9. Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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  12. In article <glen.727736610@cs.wisc.edu>, glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund) writes:
  13. > etxsvkl@garboa03.ericsson.se (Svante Kleist) writes:
  14. > 
  15. >>    imagine that something is registered somewhere, e.g.  a report is
  16. >>    registered at an office.
  17. > 
  18. >>    What do you then call that office?  "The registration office"
  19. >>    or "The registering office"? (I suspect the former being correct.)
  20. > 
  21.  
  22. You register births, marriages and deaths at the Registry Office. I suppose
  23. there's no reason other than cussedness why that word isn't used of other
  24. offices.
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  26.  
  27. Stephen Wilcox             |   For Sale: Posts in British Government. Suit
  28. wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk    |   outgoing American. Highest bids accepted.
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