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echo: english_tutor
to: ANTON SHEPELEV
from: DALLAS HINTON
date: 2020-06-28 05:37:00
subject: for discussion

Hi Anton -- on Jun 28 2020 at 13:44, you wrote:

 >> Its ceasing to rain prompted our closing our umbrellas.

AS> Or should it be folding or furling?

All three terms are functionally synonymous, although the two you
suggest are more formal, imo. And to be more pedantic, one folds a
newspaper, but furls an umbrella. :-)


Cheers... Dallas

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