Re: Tentative Ebisedian number system

In a message dated 07/04/2002 11.54.56 AM, intrepid linguavore John Cowan
writes:

>[ . . . ] English has words like duo/pair, trio, quartet, quintet for the
first few >members of this series, although vigintiseptet is probably too far
out. <SNiP>

    Eh? Vigintiseptet "looks" pretty intriguingly erudite & linguistically
"tasty" to me *giggloctet*  but I think vigesiseptet is lil more "transparent"
    ::vividly imagines a vigintiseptet/vigesiseptet playing dark, complex
chamber music [in Mercator tuning/53 notes to the octave] in a suitably
Gothic Gormenghastic setting::

>ObRant:  I blenched yesterday to read of three women as a "triumvirate"!
    ROTFLMAO mayhaps they were transgendered or "drag kings" ;)

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