Re: NBC enlightens us on the age of languages

From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:40:26 -0400

"Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:4134011B.53@alphalink.com.au...
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
> > At least it's Equateur in French and
> > even Isimerinos in Greek.
>
>
> Wow! The sheep of Isis!

No, silly. It's "iso-" = "same", as in "isogloss". So it's the line drawn
such that the same number of sheep live on each side of it. (There's much
less land south of it, but Australia and New Zealand make up for it in ovine
density.)

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