What's in a name?

Tim Rowe digitig at cix.co.uk
Tue Jun 6 18:20:00 EDT 2000


In article <393d24ee.0 at news.proweb.co.uk>, ng at hardlight.couk.com (.:|:.) 
wrote:

> 
> "Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:392CBAB5.37BFCE21 at san.rr.com...
> > Can you name some situations
> > in reading and writing english (heh) where case is essential to being
> > understood?
> 
> river riding
> 
> River Riding

Years ago the New Musical Express had a front page banner that read 
"READING CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH". For non-UK readers I may have to explain 
that Reading is an English town that hosts an annual rock festival. I 
never did find out if I was being warned against attending the 
festival or perusing the journal.



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