Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:44:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004091541050.3039-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzp3dovno4r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Hi, On 9 Apr 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> writes: > > apparently French physicists were annoyed when John Wheeler coined > > the word "black hole" because it translated to anus. > Bollocks. To me, it sounds like just another one of those the-french- > are-so-weird stories the anglosaxon are so fond of telling. Believe it or not as you will - since I've heard the story directly from Wheeler, Thorne and my thesis advisor (who did his PhD w/ Wheeler and studied under Thorne at CalTech) I'll take their word for it. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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