JDG wrote:
>
>> Why is it _Killer Bees_ and not _Killing Bees_? IIRC, when a verb becomes
>> a noun, it gets the _-er_ suffix, but when it becomes an adjective, it
>> gets the _-ing_suffix.
>
> You must have mistook English for a language that actually follows
> rules.....  
>
If I were a native English speaker, I could be lazy with the grammatical
rules. Having been born in a country whose mother tongue is not
English, I was taught to stick to the letter of the law. O:-)

Alberto Monteiro



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