recoing

[Benjamin Barrett]

I had trouble finding hits for this as well. Here are one verb and two
noun uses:

Verb: "This excelent condition Radiator top tank came off my 292 V8 and
had been recoed just 2 months earlier."
http://denver.craigslist.org/pts/489482546.html

Noun: "Does anyone have a reco for a brand of Italian language CDs?
"My boyfriend wants Italian language CDs for Christmas. I'm just not
sure what brand or product to go with. Any suggestions welcome."
(http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071111184610AAAANcx)

Noun: "Want your reco for a direct-vent gas fireplace
"...Which brand do your recommend?"
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/firepl/msg1021390326984.html

Benjamin Barrett
a cyberbreath for language life
livinglanguages.wordpress.com

James Harbeck wrote:
> A client used the term "recoing" twice in an email I got today. This
> one stumped me. I wasn't sure if it was a typo, or a misconstrual, or
> what. One of our salespeople informed me that it's short for
> "recommending." New to me! And when I Google "recoing" I find that
> it's a French surname and that there are a few people of that name
> with lots of websites about them, and that's about all I could find
> in the rather limited time I had to poke around in this particular
> heap. So I'm not sure whether "recoing" has any real currency, and
> whether it's something we'll be seeing more of.
>

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