[meteorite-list] Strewnfield or Strewn Field?

From: Dark Matter <freequarks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:30:24 -0700
Message-ID: <822da19a1001160730r3c788cd2y5c86108de25dbbf9_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

If strewnfield is not one word (as it should be), then it will be
soon. Especially with our help.

But in today's vernacular, I suspect it is more like STRNFLD as in:

RUNTS! IANAL BUT CYA B4 U SRCH STRNFLD. WDYT?

Oh, and thanks for referencing my column Larry and Frank. I would love
to have the time again to put into the Strewnfields column again, but
it will be a while. I am, however, a new columnist for the journal The
Science Teacher (NSTA.org) with an installment titled Science 2.0.

In the mean time my monthly Accretion Desk is as much meteorite
writing as I have time for. Got to keep this fun, right?

B4N,

Martin




On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Frank Cressy <fcressy at prodigy.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think it would be correct to use "strewnfield"...one word.
>
> When someone talks about a corn field, two words are used.? Another way to say this is : "field of corn."
>
> If "strewn field" is the correct, would one also be correct in saying "field of strewn"?? I don't think that works.
>
> So I think the correct usage should be "strewnfield" like Martin used to use in his columns.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
>
> Frank
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu" <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
> To: Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
> Cc: Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 7:52:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Strewnfield or Strewn Field?
>
> Hi Eric:
>
> For about a year, this was a topic for the editors of Meteorite magazine.
> We decided to be consistent with strewnfield since we had the column "From
> the Strewnfields" by Martin Horejsi at the time (miss your articles in the
> magazine, Martin).
>
> Larry
>
>> Hi Listees,
>>
>> Thanks to you all who've written in with kind words and comments on my
>> new article a few days back titled "What is a Meteorite Strewnfield?" I
>> really appreciate your compliments. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you
>> haven't read it yet please do so. It's a good informative read, and even
>> has some pretty pictures too. ;)
>>
>> The reason for this email is to ask about proper use of the word(s)
>> strewnfield. While researching the article I noticed that the numerous
>> websites on the internet had 2 ways of spelling the it. Should it be
>> "Strewnfield" one word... or "Strewn Field" two seperate words?
>>
>> Every time I type in strewnfield in a search it comes up with "Did you
>> mean?" "strewn field" with a space. I've seen it described as "Strewn
>> field" on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strewn_field Then in
>> the paragraph just below it reads "strewnfield" all one word again. To
>> make matters more confusing Encyclopedia Britannica has the word with a
>> hyphen i.e; strewn-field.
>> http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/569002/strewn-field Google
>> shows 67,500 results for the phrase "strewn field" and the same amount
>> for strewn-field" with a hyphen, meaning they don't recognize the
>> hyphen. Google also shows 23,700 results for the single word
>> "strewnfield". Not to mention the many articles and papers all over the
>> internet with ALL 3 ways of usage of the word.
>>
>> So which is it? or does it really matter?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eric Wichman
>> Meteorites USA
>> www.meteoritesusa.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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