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Forum: English Questions Jun 17th, 2009, 12:21 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: Hire vs Rent

OK - sorry. No - for British English too hire sounds odd in both your examples as a noun.

a) Cherry picker hires - here it's the plural that's odd. I checked with the Cobuild Concordancer and their...
Forum: English Questions Jun 16th, 2009, 01:09 am
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Views: 13,387
Posted By susan53
Re: Hire vs Rent

People aside, at least in Brit Eng it tends to depend how "big" the thing is and how long you want it for. So you would "rent " a house for a year but "hire" a rowing boat for an hour. That's usually...
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