Timeline for Recur vs. Reoccur
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @WAF There is no regularity to be deduced from a single entity. In the same way, you can say that ten cars parked between two walls, with exactly five feet between them, are evenly spaced out in the room; but if there are only two cars, you can’t say they’re ‘evenly’ spaced out, because there’s no mean to deduce. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | WAF | @JanusBahsJacquet Not crucial at this point, but are you sure that endpoints of a single instance of an interval are not (trivially) regular? I think what I had in mind 3+ years ago was a single future instance of an already repeating event. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 16:50 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @WAF Your follow-up question makes no sense. Something that happens exactly once more in the future cannot, by definition, occur at a regular interval. For intervals to be regular, there must be more than one of them. | |
| Jul 12, 2011 at 14:20 | comment | added | z7sg Ѫ | @jimreed I think it's better to avoid contrived example sentences if possible. Can you find an example of occur and reoccur from the same source? I doubt that, as far as I can tell there are simply fewer people who use 'reoccur' instead, which is a newer back-formation (from re- + occurrence) than recur, which comes from the Latin. | |
| Jul 12, 2011 at 14:10 | comment | added | jimreed | @WAF I would use reoccur for an event that I expect to happen again exactly once. | |
| Jul 12, 2011 at 14:09 | comment | added | jimreed | @z7sg I started to write "The U.S. has recurring presidental elections every four years...", but I decided to rephrase it to use recur instead of recurring for a better fit with the question. | |
| Jul 12, 2011 at 14:05 | comment | added | z7sg Ѫ | I would say 'elections occur every four years'. | |
| Jul 12, 2011 at 13:58 | comment | added | WAF | If you expected it to happen exactly once more in the future, which would you use? For argument's sake, let's say you expected it to happen at a regular interval exactly once. | |
| Jul 12, 2011 at 13:55 | history | answered | jimreed | CC BY-SA 3.0 |