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"raoul" wrote in message
... In article . com, wrote: Yesterday, i was in Orlando for a crew regatta for my sons crew team OT: There is no such thing as a 'crew team'. You can have a rowing crew or a rowing team but youcannot have a rowing crew team. "Crew" is defined stricty as a group of people working on a task and, in this case a group of people rowing together. "Team" is defined similarly. To say "crew team" is as ponderious and illinformed as saying "Crew crew" or "Team team". You tell'm, Raoul :{)) L8R Skip, Frosh, JV and Varsity small college champ seat 5, many years ago However, unless you're a rower, that's a totally common mistake, and most of us rowers let it slide (well, you did know that the only "real" rowing has lots of sliding, didn't you??)... -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
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