On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:26:37 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > it my get rid of the problem temporarily but you still have no idea of
> > what the problem was or what to do should it reoccur.  
> 
> s/reoccur/recur/
> 
> Speaking as one old pedant to another...

From the OED:

reoccur: occur again or habitually

Although I agree that recur is I tidier word. I suspect it is a
contraction of reoccur, making both acceptable.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash,
it displays adialog box and lets you press OK first.

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