Re: VOCABULARY AID: Basic and Additional Vocabulary (topics 1 - 10)
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 14:50 |
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:02:05 -0500, Geoff Horswood
<geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
>BTW,
>1: Space) Where did you get the name "Charles' Wain" for the Great
>Bear/Big Dipper/Plough constellation? I'm intrigued.
>2: Geography) What's an "ock"? Is it even a noun? "to ock"? "an ock
>landscape feature"???
1: I said that I have written this off from that book. It clearly said
"Charles' Wain/Great Bear".
2: Ack, a typo! I knew there must be *at least* one typo in there. I guess
that should have been "rock".
Carsten
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