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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>:
65.54.245.40 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Giving up on 65.54.245.40.

(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.


Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
 
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No clue, Whom. But as of today I started sending them from a different account, Wordcrafting@gmail.com. Try that.
 
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