Mark Smith wrote: "Actually, I think you might also apologise for the redundancy in your original post:
> wrote a long, and fairly sesquedepelian Outside of chemistry (where it indicates a ratio of 3 to 2), sesquipidalian simply means 'long', from the Latin for 'a foot and a half'." I, of course :) need to make no further apologies because I was unable to ascertain, when Joel was writing, whether he adhered to the English or the Roman foot. As a Scot I adhere to neither and naturally favour the Scots Ell. I did, however, use "sesquidepelian" its more modern meaning of: polysyllabic Now you will have to accept that a text can be long and not polysyllabic (some folk I know talk at length in monosyllables), short and polysyllabic, or both long and polysyllabic. Go and read Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' : http://www.sundials.org/about/humpty.htm and have a jolly good Sunday night. Love and more muffled noises, Richmond Mathewson However as I acknowledge His Majesty King Francis II, King of Scots as my monarch: http://www.defendersofscotland.org/monarch.htm and he is a direct descendent of Pharaoh Akhenkeres of Egypt I may find myself obliged to use cubits :) ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution