[meteorite-list] Strewnfield or Strewn Field?

Meteorites USA eric at meteoritesusa.com
Thu Jan 14 22:39:00 EST 2010


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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