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Originally Posted by dissention
I never said it wasn't. Just that you would have scored higher if you had used "abutment" somehow, silly.
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Again, isn't that some sort of structural term? Let's ask my old friend "dictionary.com"
Abutment:
1. The part of a structure that bears the weight or pressure of an arch.
2. A structure that supports the end of a bridge.
3. A structure that anchors the cables of a suspension bridge.
Whereas, "abut" means: To touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent.
1. To border upon or end at; be next to.
So, in fact, as I suspected, Strand did use the term
"abut" appropriately, but the term
"abutment" would not be appropriate in this case.
So, to sum up: Strand is right, Diss is wrong, and Amber gets points for her super vocabularic knowledge. As you were.