CHAT: halation (was: Re: Japanese English)

At 1:53 am +0000 24/3/00, And Rosta wrote:
>Roger Mills:
>> << I wondered that about 'halation'. But if this one is a word, 'escalation'
>>  could well be :) .   >>
>> Perhaps a root erroneously extracted from inhale/inhalation/exhalation? so,
>> "breathing"??  Nothing would surprise me here,
>
>Why would it be erroneous? There's a Latin _halare_, isn't there?
There is.

But recourse to an English dictionary will tell you that halation is an
English word formed from 'halo'; it means:
"a blurring in a photograph by reflection & dispersion of light; a bright
area around a bright spot on a florescent screen."

Ray.

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