nsing  +  22735 Wed, 18 Feb 04 07:25 AM Hi everyone, Do i say "You name is not in the list" or "You name is not on the list" ? Thank you. nsing Joined on Thu, Feb 12 2004 Malaysia New Member 10 Please correct me if i am wrong and thanks a lot for your kind assistance.

	rommie  +  22749 Wed, 18 Feb 04 09:48 AM ON. The word "on" is ALSO used in English to mean "printed, written or patterned onto the the surface of". Thus, we say that wallpaper is ON the wall, writing is ON a page, and so on, even though these things are not vertically above. "The writing is ON the page" is clearly a different spacial relationship from "The book is ON the table", but the same word is used for these two purposes. Rommie rommie Joined on Mon, Jan 26 2004 Earth orbit Regular Member 606

	Mike in Japan  +  22765 Wed, 18 Feb 04 01:07 PM My humble vote goes to 'on' for both. Mike in Japan Joined on Tue, Aug 19 2003 Senior Member 4,371 I do like to be beside the seaside

	rommie  +  22792 Wed, 18 Feb 04 07:11 PM But i always heard ppl saying "Your name is not in the list". So "ON" should be the correct word to use is it? I suspect that whoever said "Your name is not in the list" got it wrong. That wouldn't be the normal way to say it. It should be "Your name is not ON the list". (Something can be IN the papers, or IN a book, because here we mean IN quite literally - as in, INside. That is, somewhere in between the front and the back). Rommie. rommie