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Date:      09 Apr 2000 20:08:20 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
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:  <xzp3dovno4r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Brett Taylor's message of "Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:25:49 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004091121110.2390-100000@peloton.runet.edu>

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Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> writes:
> On 9 Apr 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> writes:
> > > If you think they were touchy about "hot dog" you can probably
> > > imagine the uproar when physicists started talking about "black
> > holes."  I'll let you figure out what the French word for that is.  
> > "trou noir". What's the problem?
> As I noted in some other message, I only know French as it pertains to
> biking so I don't know if that's the correct word, but 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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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