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Subject:no-smoking or non-smoking From:Matthew Wong <wong -at- ACEC -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 4 Mar 1994 13:04:34 PST
Dear Listees,
I'm writing a manual that requires me to address a hotel room in which the
guest is not permitted to smoke. Now, should I address this room as:
(a) non-smoking room or (b) no-smoking room.
I prefer the latter becuase a non-smoking room seems to describe a room
that is not smoking rather than a room in which smoking is not permitted. I
may be wrong.
