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MH1

(17,600 posts) Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:54 AM Jun 2016

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Just to be annoying: Ordinance vs. Ordnance

http://grammarist.com/usage/ordinance-ordnance/

Ordinance vs. ordnance
An ordinance is a municipal or county law. Ordnance is a mass noun referring to military materials such as weapons, ammunition, equipment, and vehicles.

To whom this applies, and you may not know who you are yet: Thank you in advance for reading and applying your new knowledge.

Signed, Semantics Nazi.

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Just to be annoying: Ordinance vs. Ordnance (Original Post) MH1 Jun 2016 OP

... Crepuscular Jun 2016 #1

Don't forget the Ordnance Survey which is large or small scale surveying OnDoutside Jun 2016 #2

If someone uses either word in relation to gunz, most folks know what they mean. It's kind Hoyt Jun 2016 #3

Crepuscular

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Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:59 AM

Jun 2016

Wow, you can hear the panties twisting already! Get ready to be blasted by the grabbers who hold up ignorance of nomenclature as a badge of honor.

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)

2. Don't forget the Ordnance Survey which is large or small scale surveying

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Fri Jun 17, 2016, 09:06 AM

Jun 2016

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. If someone uses either word in relation to gunz, most folks know what they mean. It's kind

Reply to MH1 (Original post)

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 09:13 AM

Jun 2016

of like "clip" vs. "magazine," they both hold and feed bullets so gun yahoos don't have to reload as often.

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