[NLRS] Rover semantics....

Wed, 1 May 2002 23:50:34 -0500

my 2 � worth

As a rover with 3 contests and 8 grids I would say that "rovering"
sounds more correct but I think they are interchangeable.  The word
"roving" to me sounds vaguely maritime in nature.

I think a word doesn't have to be in the Merriam Webster Collegiate
Dictionary to be valid.  I looked up "bellcrank" and "bell-crank" in
the Merriam Webster online Collegiate Dictionary and Dictionary.com
and neither have an entry for it.   Bellcrank is most certainly a
valid and correct word.

Here is a link to photos of a flap bellcrank for a homebuilt aircraft.

http://members.cruzio.com/~arlo/9%20Flap%20Bellcrank.html

73 Jon
W0AMT (hoping I haven't strayed too far off the reflector subject)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Richardson" <[email protected]>
To: "nlrs" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: [NLRS] Rover semantics....

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

Central States VHF Society Conference:  Milwaukee, WI  July 26-28,
2002.  Make plans to
attend!  Info at:  http://www.csvhfs.org

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