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TOY - 15 Jan 2004 07:00 GMT

Is it (i) smoke free restaurant or (ii) smoking free restaurant?

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Lars Eighner - 15 Jan 2004 07:53 GMT

In our last episode,
<1074150048.610969@hkpu01>,
the lovely and talented TOY
broadcast on alt.usage.english:

> Is it (i) smoke free restaurant or (ii) smoking free restaurant?

"Smoke-free restaurant" --which will probably become "smokefree"
if smoking remains an issue for long.

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Armond Perretta - 15 Jan 2004 15:56 GMT

> "Smoke-free restaurant" --which will probably become "smokefree"
> if smoking remains an issue for long.

Since many smokers are not long for this world, perhaps the situation will
take care of itself.

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Stewart Gordon - 15 Jan 2004 17:40 GMT

While it was 15/1/04 7:00 am throughout the UK, TOY sprinkled little
black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus:

> Is it (i) smoke free restaurant or (ii) smoking free restaurant?

Which restaurant are we talking about here? At the moment I've no idea
whether
(i) there's no smoke there
(ii) there's no smoking going on there

Stewart.

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