Re: Country names

Mark wrote:
> That's spelled "tetrahedron" in English, btw.  Also, in the heated
> pursuit of consistency at the cost of clarity, some folks insist
> on referring to quadrilaterals and triangles as "tetragons" and
> "trigons", respectively.  Oddly, I've only run across the term
> "quadrangle" in reference to college campuses.
I occasionally write "tetragon" - I wasn't aware of the term "quadrilateral".
When feeling particularly obnoxious I'll speak of "n-gons" ...

                                                  Andreas

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