--- Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> wrote:
> It's not one word, but two will still
> do: "Room temperature." Generally
> understoood here to be approximately 72 F, or
> 22 C. Note that it cannot (in
> my idiolect, at least) be used to refer to
> other temperatures:
> *It's hot in here, the room temperature
> must be 50 C!"
Indeed. I use it that way (to indicate the actual
temperature of the room) all the time.
> Agreed. A couple of months ago I asked
> about a word to refer to
> "niece/nephew"--the winner was "sibchild." On
> that basis, might "aunt/uncle"
> be "sibsib"? :)
Sounds too much like "me" - my sibling's sibling!
Padraic.
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beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina
mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima;
pe' ne m' molestyont
que faciont
doazque y facyont in rima.
.
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