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Dodi Schultz
October 23rd, 2006, 10:17 AM
>> I am curious -- how can Chambers have something lie between ONE
>> fault at all? Ever?

Dave, won't you PLEASE use quotebacks, so people know what you're talking
about?

I never said that Chambers (I have Chambers 21st Century) used the word
"between." The Chambers definition of "horst," in full, is: "a block of the
earth's crust that has remained in position while the ground around it has
subsided, due to one or more faults in the surrounding area."

--Dodi

Hugo Kornelis
October 23rd, 2006, 10:46 AM
Hi Dodi,

> >> I am curious -- how can Chambers have something lie between ONE
> >> fault at all? Ever?
>
> Dave, won't you PLEASE use quotebacks, so people know what you're talking
> about?
>
> I never said that Chambers (I have Chambers 21st Century) used the word
> "between."

You didn't explicitly say it, but it was implied by how yoou wrote your
text. Here's the quote that Dave omitted:

> Note the
> "lies between TWO FAULTS" in #12. The Concise OED agreed; M-W just said
> "faults," no number; Chambers settled for "ONE OR MORE faults"; and Random
> House demanded that the area in question be "bounded on AT LEAST TWO SIDES
> by faults."

The emphasis of TWO FAULDS and ONE OR MORE FAULTS suggests that the rest of
the definition is the same, or at least similar. Also, the inclusion of
"bounded on" in the quote from Random House makes the suggestion that the
other defs all use "lies between" strong, IMO.

So I can see how Dave concluded that Chambers had "lies between one or more
faults".

Best, Hugo

bonnyjars
October 23rd, 2006, 02:55 PM
Dave

>
> I am curious -- how can Chambers have something lie between
> ONE fault at all? Ever?
>


A pedantic dictionary writer who accepts that someone else is the expert might also have been misled by a comment that faults can
'bend' - and also naybe had heard of 'horseshoe fault' which is the common misnomer for a spectauclar vertical folding formation in
the shape of an inverted 'U'

JohnnyB


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