Quoting David Starner <dvdeug@...>:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:42:56PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > I occasionally write "tetragon" - I wasn't aware of the term
> "quadrilateral".
> > When feeling particularly obnoxious I'll speak of "n-gons" ...
>
> I've actually seen n-gons fairly often as math major.
I didn't claim I invented them. The dreaded _n-hörning_ has been a staple of my
maths lessons. The nice thing is that _n-hörning_ [En'h2:n`IN] sounds alot like
_enhörning_ [e:n'h2:n`IN] "unicorn" ...
Andreas