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From: "GordonD" <g.da...@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: lifeguard, pool attendant, or?
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"Mark Brader" <m...@vex.net> wrote in message 
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>>>> ("What do you call", not "how do you call".)
>
> Robert Bannister:
>> I'm not convinced that "how" is actually wrong with "call".
>
> It isn't wrong, but it asks a different question.
>
>   What do you call the referee in a game of duplicate bridge?
>       The director.
>   How do you call the referee in a game of duplicate bridge?
>       I raise my hand and say "Director!"
>
> (Other answers to both questions are possible.)


And of course "How do you do?" and "What do you do?" are entirely different 
questions.

(Arguably the first one isn't even a question, as the correct response is to 
say "How do you do?" in return, not to tell the person your current state of 
health.)
-- 
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."