[NLRS] Rover semantics....

[Clare Jarvis]

My zero cents worth.

Rovering is acting as a rover.   Any activity of a rover, is rovering.  So
tinkering with the vehicle, or planting a rove or such is rovering.

Roving is the act of actually doing the rove.   Ie. making qso's from various
grids or states.   I don't think they are the same.   If you tell me you are 
rovering that doesn't preclude rovering but doesn't mean only roving.

73 Clare K0NY


On Wednesday 01 May 2002 03:58 pm, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Somebody just yanked my chain over my use of the word "rovering" on the
> CSVHFS Conf2002 web-page.  They said the proper word is "roving".  Well, I
> quibbled.  I've rovered and roved since 1991 and have activated 76 grids so
> far and throughout the over 10 years of talking about it, I've always used
> both words interchangeably.  The guy correcting me cites Merriam Webster
> on-line dictionary as not having "rovering" while having "roving". Have any
> of you ever felt that one word was correct while the other was not? Have
> you thought a speaker or writer ignorant for using one of the
> spellings/usages?
>
> Cleary, I'm fishing for confirmation that "it just doesn't matter".  But if
> some of you have the differing point of view, I'd be glad to hear it and
> maybe this rovering dog would have to learn a new trick.
>
> Bruce Richardson - W9FZ
>
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