December 30, 2005, 14:51
Dr. Whommail isn't working; draculin, cummingtonite, Cristane
Your mailer has decided to refuse everything I send it. Is it because it's coming from Yahoo.com?
-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
(draculin)
<wowod@hotmail.com>:
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(Chuckle!) I have forwarded that to the newsgroup rec.music.filk, with the following introduction. (Filk music is, roughly, the folk music of the subculture of the science fiction fan community.)
> The Wordcraft site offers interesting words and word histories, e-mailing one a day on a weekly theme. I thought you lot would be interested in this one.
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>Notwithstanding its name, cummingtonite is not an aphrodisiac.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
>Cummintonite is also the name of a family of minerals,
What happened to the 'g'?
>and if it seems odd, recall the best known example of polymorphism: graphite and diamond are two forms of carbon, with different arrangements of the atoms.
And now buckyballs and nanotubes as well -- granted, not nearly so well known.
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Cristane (tricyclo[5.3.0.0]decane) was first discovered at Brown University. It seems that that evening, someone left the window to the lab open, and the next morning it was discovered that a
pidgeon
had flown in and left deposits throughout.
Walter?
Does it contain
magnesium magnesium?
Tsk, tsk. And twice in the same post! so Tsk, tsk again.
December 31, 2005, 19:23
wordcrafterNo clue, Whom. But as of today I started sending them from a different account, Wordcrafting@gmail.com. Try that.