Re: OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It
From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 01/06/05
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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:11:34 +0000
I read in sci.electronics.design that keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote (in
<pan.2005.01.06.03.31.24.581996@att.bizzzz>) about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash,
the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:
>On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:45:42 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:
>
>> I read in sci.electronics.design that Kryten <kryten_droid_obfusticator@
>> ntlworld.com> wrote (in <x2UCd.227$Wo1.208@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net>) about
>> 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:
>>>
>>>"Bob Stephens" <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>news:62fwn1lzd3wk$.sdwsvc7cv9wb$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>>> On 5 Jan 2005 02:11:56 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Two of my pet hatreds:
>>>>
>>>
>>>aluminum (inconsistent with other metals like sodium calcium magnesium)
>>
>> But 'tantalum'.
>
>Hmm,what about; platinum, molybdenum, stannum(tin), plumbum(lead),
>argentum(silver), aurum(gold), hydrargyrum(mercury), cuprum(copper)
Aluminum and tantalum form a condensed list. (;-)
It's not fair to cite the Latin names; we are using English here.
>
>Then there's; manganese, tungsten(wolfram), antimony, cobalt, nickel,
>zinc, bismuth
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