Timeline for Guardrail vs Guard rail
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| Oct 14, 2022 at 16:05 | answer | added | Will | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 2, 2012 at 9:25 | answer | added | Roaring Fish | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2012 at 4:20 | history | edited | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 2, 2012 at 3:08 | answer | added | Gnawme | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2012 at 2:42 | answer | added | MT_Head | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2012 at 2:37 | comment | added | Boudreaux | hey...I appreciate you. Thanks for taking the time to joust a tad . I'm out till the morning. take care. | |
| May 2, 2012 at 2:36 | comment | added | Boudreaux | I subscribe to your native-speaker instinct and stand with guardrail. I did happen upon a site that provided the definition of guardrail, using the exact spelling. Afterwards, the author did recognize the word(s) guard-rail as an "alternate" spelling. That was when I had my epiphany, thinking "well if it's an alternate, then it is the exception rather than the rule of guardrail. then my mental busy begins to tear away at that suggesting if it's an alternate, then it's an equal. | |
| May 2, 2012 at 2:28 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | My personal native-speaker instinct is that guardrail is now preferred. The OED2 listed guard-rail with a hyphen. | |
| May 2, 2012 at 2:27 | comment | added | Boudreaux | let me add....that yes.....everything you mentioned in your reply, if in fact there is no other answer, technically, officially. | |
| May 2, 2012 at 2:25 | comment | added | Boudreaux | Legit in the sense of ....if all the respected authorities combined, who govern over words and their meaning, failed to address this particular word and it's technical particulars, then what would be the next resource tier lower on the hierarchy of the proverbial food chain of authorities on this matter? Is there such a thing? Primary...Secondary.....tertiary?.....if not.......then is there anything that exist to give one or the other more merit, if not technical correctness, as with the lower runged opinion or trend or popularity.? I come short in my findings....... | |
| May 2, 2012 at 1:53 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | What’s your measure of whether something’s legit? An OED entry? Use on the Internet? Use in printed books? | |
| May 2, 2012 at 1:42 | history | asked | Boudreaux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |