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Subject: Re: Spirally or Spiral?
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:12:25 +0200
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Mike Lyle wrote:
> Johan Branders wrote:
>> Can anyone help me with the following question?
>>
>> What is the right expression?
>>
>> Spiral welded pipes
>> or
>> Spirally welded pipes
>>
>> According to Google a huge majority uses "spiral welded". Are they
>> right?
>
> A specialist would give a better answer than I can, but my guess is
> that the context will tell such a specialist all he needs to know.
> From the point of view of style, though, a straight pipe made by
> welding strips spirally would generally be a "spirally welded pipe":
> a "spiral welded pipe" might logically refer to a welded pipe which
> is helical in form -- a "welded spiral pipe". But if a majority of
> the Ggl hits for "spiral welded" come from those who know about
> welded pipes, and turn out on examination to mean "pipes made by
> welding strips spirally" it's probably safe to follow their example.
> You have to study even an Oxford Dictionary entry in the light of
> your knowledge, and that applies even more strongly when it comes to
> Google.
Thanks for your answer, Mike.
I still have a question, though.
Isn't it possible that "spiral" is an adjective to indicate that the weld has
a spiral form?
Compare with: "thin-walled structures". The structures have thin walls.
Why not "spiral-welded tubes", i.e. tubes which have spiral welds?
Johan
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