LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.01.26 (08) [E]

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From: Ed Alexander <edsells at cogeco.ca>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.01.26 (06) [E]

At 12:31 PM 02/26/04 -0800, David Barrow wrote:
>A couple of different definitions from Longman Dictionary of  Contemporary
>English
>
>guest book:  a  book in which everyone who comes to a formal occasion or
>stays at a hotel writes their name.
>
>visitor's book:  a book, especially in a church or other important
building,
>in which visitors write their names and addresses.

As my wife already suggested.  However, the latter is often called a "guest
book", but the former is never a "visitors' book".  Hence, perhaps, the
dominance of the former over the latter in common speech (which I think,
Ron, with all due respect, we've now fairly well established).

Ed Alexander, Hamilton, Canada

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