On Wednesday, 24 February 2016, Fred Sawyer <fwsaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frank, > > Happy Leap Day. I have shared your Power poibt file on this with ny > daughter so she dan use it in the Latin classes she teaches. She is having > parties in each of the classes today. > > Best wishes, > > Fred > > On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, Frank King <f...@cl.cam.ac.uk > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','f...@cl.cam.ac.uk');>> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> As is my four-yearly custom, I wish readers of >> this list a Happy Leap Year Day. >> >> I was delighted, in 2012, when I sent out a >> similar greeting, that not a single reader >> queried why I had sent out the message on >> 24 February. >> >> I will add my four-yearly lament that the >> perfectly good English term "bissextile year" >> seems to be almost obsolete. Around 100 years >> ago it was in fairly common use. >> >> I continue to applaud the French, the Italians >> and the Portuguese (just to give three examples) >> who still use année bissextile, anno bisestile >> and ano bissexto. >> >> Let us hope that they do not indulge in the >> dumbing-down from which we in the U.K. seem >> to suffer. >> >> Frank King >> Cambridge, U.K. >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >>
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