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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:26:37 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > it my get rid of the problem temporarily but you still have no idea of |
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> > what the problem was or what to do should it reoccur. |
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> s/reoccur/recur/ |
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> Speaking as one old pedant to another... |
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From the OED: |
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reoccur: occur again or habitually |
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Although I agree that recur is I tidier word. I suspect it is a |
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contraction of reoccur, making both acceptable. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, |
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it displays adialog box and lets you press OK first. |
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