Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 13:59 |
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Henrik Theiling scripsit:
> 'Fountain pen' sounds dangerous for clothes. What is it? And what's
> it's operative range? :-)
Only a few mm. It was the main writing technology between the abandonment
of the quill and the prevalence of the ballpoint, the one with the metal
nib (writing portion) with the split in it.
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