One of the beauties of the English language is how easy it is to turn a verb into a noun, and vice-versa. It makes it hard to have hard and fast rules. Chuck > Weather helm and lee helm are sometimes used as verbs, while referring to > a boat's innate design that makes it turn in the wind. I'm a bit leary of > restricting the words weather helm and lee helm to being either verbs or > nouns. See for example James Tibensky's latest post, which seems to be > correct usage and easily understood. > > Despite this I did like Chuck's very simple explanation, Just not bold > enough to use it myself. > > All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Sep 27 2006 - 10:03:48 PDT
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