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Re: irregularities

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 19, 2001, 16:08
Quoting Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>:

> the Big Dipper is the plough (although, I'm apparently not the > first one to think it looks like a plough. Oh well.)
The Chinese have a lovely name for that one: The Imperial Bureaucrat. ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers

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