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)
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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.

No clue, Whom. But as of today I started sending them from a different account, Wordcrafting@gmail.com. Try that.