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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada [SMTP:john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 10:38 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: signage
>
>Contained in an email distributed to several thousand
>employees this morning regarding renovation of a facility:
>
>"Signage will be posted on each bathroom door during
>renovation advising you of the nearest available bathroom."
>
>Signage??
Yep. I have a couple of friends in the sign-making business, and they
use the word "signage" to refer to signs in the collective sense (one
sign, two signs, I am producing signage for Joe's motel chain).
Surprisingly, it's in Oxford: "n. signs collectively, esp. commercial or
public display signs." So it's "legal," although I think the email you
received should have read "Signs will be posted. . . ."
Unless the signage was being posted on the doorage?
Scott
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Scott McClare - Technical Writer
DY 4 Systems Inc., Kanata, Ontario, Canada
(613) 599-9199 x502 smcclare -at- dy4 -dot- com
Opinions are my own
