Re: Att. Ray -- of snails and slugs
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 19:07 |
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:26:00PM +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> ...and according to Harrap's English-French & French-English dictionaries.
> _limaçon_ is also used for spiral stairs. But the meanings for helical
> staircase cannot be derived from "slug", but must have arisen from the
> shape of a snail's shell; i.e. at one time these words must have been used
> to mean snail as well.
Indeed, limaçon is also the word (in English) for a certain kind of spiral
shape in geometry.
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Eric Christopherson | Rakko