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mm - 02 Jan 2010 22:42 GMT

Both buildings are sprinkled and meet Baltimore County Fire Codes for
an Assisted Living Facility

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the Omrud - 02 Jan 2010 23:09 GMT

> Both buildings are sprinkled and meet Baltimore County Fire Codes for
> an Assisted Living Facility

Presumably: equipped with sprinklers.

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Ian Jackson - 02 Jan 2010 23:24 GMT

>> Both buildings are sprinkled and meet Baltimore County Fire Codes for
>> an Assisted Living Facility
>
>Presumably: equipped with sprinklers.

"Sprinklerized", surely?

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the Omrud - 02 Jan 2010 23:30 GMT

> >> Both buildings are sprinkled and meet Baltimore County Fire Codes for
> >> an Assisted Living Facility
> >
> >Presumably: equipped with sprinklers.
> >
> "Sprinklerized", surely?

Oh well, if I have to make up my own term, I like "en-sprinklerated".

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HVS - 02 Jan 2010 23:36 GMT

On 02 Jan 2010, mm wrote

> Both buildings are sprinkled and meet Baltimore County Fire
> Codes for an Assisted Living Facility

"Sprinklered", I'd have thought.

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Ian Jackson - 02 Jan 2010 23:50 GMT

>On 02 Jan 2010, mm wrote
>
>> Both buildings are sprinkled and meet Baltimore County Fire
>> Codes for an Assisted Living Facility
>
>"Sprinklered", I'd have thought.

"Sprinkleriz(e)atedified"?
"Sprinklerificatedized"?
"Besprinkleifericated"?
[I expect that that's well and truly buggered my spellchecker.]

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Eric Walker - 03 Jan 2010 00:10 GMT

> Both buildings are sprinkled and meet Baltimore County Fire Codes for an
> Assisted Living Facility

The wanted form of the word is "sprinklered": equipped with sprinklers.
_Operor retineo non forensis liberi attero vos_ (courtesy of Wikipedia).

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Sprinkled?