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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
How can anyone, in this country, not know what visitation means when it's on the news forty times a day?
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I'm pretty sure we all know what it means. I'm just trying to figure out why 'visiting rights' sounds wrong to me. Style? Accustomed usage? Is it actually ungrammatical in my dialect of English?
I think it's probably the very reason you cite: visitation rights is pretty ubiquitous in the States.