Giovanni Battista Venturi: Brilliant physicist, hardly obscuri; You can't be a boob To name an Effect, Pump and Tube And that's the end of the sturi.
John Kowalchuk wrote:
Veering ever so close to NHR territory, I would suspect that since it is a proper name, Venturi should remain intact. John Kowalchuk Maker of mutes/horns/canoes/paddles/bikes Oshawa, Ontario http://kowalchukmutes.com Canadians don't surf the net, we paddle it. -----Original Message----- From: horn-bounces+hornontario=yahoo...@music.memphis.edu [mailto:horn- bounces+hornontario=yahoo...@music.memphis.edu] On Behalf Of Herbert Foster Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:39 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Receiver size on Selman double horn Thank you, John, for setting us straight. "Ventura" bothered me subliminally. Giovanni Battista Venturi was Italian, so shouldn't the singular be venturo, or is it one ventura, two venture ?-) Herb Foster ________________________________ From: John Kowalchuk <hornonta...@yahoo.ca> To: The Horn List <horn@music.memphis.edu> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 1:08:31 AM Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Receiver size on Selman double horn Every time this subject comes up I wonder about the symantics. Is it venturi or ventura? I finally spent five seconds looking it up and learned Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822) discovered the venturi effect which is named after him. So it is one venturi, several venturis.
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