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Re: house plant

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monica Milla" <gardenfaerie02@yahoo.com>

> Mr. Webster and I vote for one word: houseplant.

Mr. Webster doesn't get a vote, though yours is valid. A dictionary does not 
set the rules, it merely records how others, especially experts in the 
field, are using the word at the time the dictionary was published. I 
suppose we are the "experts in the field" so we get to make the rule by our 
own usage. Since there is no consensus on house plant/houseplant, use 
whichever you like. There is no rule. My spell checker thinks otherwise and 
yells at me whenever I use "houseplant" (there, did you hear that?), but I 
ignore it.

D 

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