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#1 2007-02-25 17:44:04

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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turnSTYLE (-stile)

Google counts on Feb 25, 2007:
925,000 Turnstile
220,000 Turnstyle
Analysis by Joe Krozel

A turnstile is a people-metering gate with a turning arm. “Turnstyle” might be an eggcorn if the utterer views the device as a style of turn (so to speak). Unfortunately, there are two difficulties: First, it could be just a case of misspelling, and second “style” derives from ME stile, so there may be common etymology. Even so, the modern sense of stile—as a stair or a step—is far different from the sense invoked here, i.e., a fashion or mode.

Examples:

Fare Collection in BostonThe turnstyle was covered by a wood panel above and by wood signs (“Enter … On the other side of the entry to the turnstyle was the coin mechanism, ...
world.nycsubway.org/us/boston/bostonfare.html – 9k – Cached – Similar pages

BadTransitAfter about 20 seconds of trying to force my monthly pass in the slot and banging on the turnstyle, a MBTA ambassador put my pass in the turnstyle next to …
www.badtransit.com/index.php?/site/comm … _surprise/ – 39k – Cached – Similar pages

Offline operations of production lines, Worksmart Systems modular …The turnstyle locks in 90-degree quadrants by means of a pneumatic … A friction brake prevents carts on the turnstyle from rolling off the station while …
www.worksmartsystems.com/Offline_Operations.html – 18k – Cached – Similar pages

TITLE: Finite state machine parsing RESPONSE: rmartin@rcmcon.com …The Pass event indicates that someone has “passed through” the turnstyle. There are also four behaviors that the machine invokes. It can lock the turnstyle, ...
cpptips.hyperformix.com/cpptips/fsm.txt – 5k – Cached – Similar pages

The History of TLSShe froze, so I grabbed my phone and pulled up the camera function, hopped over the turnstyle, and ran out the door. I stood there for a sec, ...
www.top-law-schools.com/forums/tls4192-225.html – 61k – Cached – Similar pages

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