Britishism?

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> Don't we most often BOOK airline reservations--or even tickets?  (Seldom do we "reserve reservations"!)
>
> And there are "booking agents" to match entertainers with venues.

As it happens, I agree with these entirely. I wouldn't say them any
other way. But, "booking" an appointment with the *doctor* is strange.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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