From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 9 12:45:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E91237B7D7 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 12:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03054; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:44:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:44:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On 9 Apr 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Brett Taylor 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