Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> >> Lucien wrote: >> > >> > Do you accept Webster's New World Dictionary ? >> > >> > Un'quote interj. end the quotation. >> >> Isn't it Webster's that includes 'lense' as an acceptable alternative >> spelling, claiming it's European? In that case I wouldn't trust *anything* >> >> in it... >> >> David Morton | "Times are bad. Children no >> dmorton@journalist.co.uk | longer obey their parents and >> David.Morton@openconsulting.co.uk | everyone is writing a book." >> (+44) 171 917 6272 | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) >> oh so way off topic, this dictionaphilia (?). I have Websters 3rd, it has 'pooch' in it and seems ok to me, but my favourite book is Skeats etymological dictionary (1882, reprinted 1991, OUP) - - for sourcery, this book is sex on a stick. Brewers dictionary of phrase and fable is also as useful as a city map. It helps one think symbolically, which is an interesting influence on photography. And, by the way, does a blue moon present a photo opportunity? - > > TWICE IN A BLUE MOON? > >You've all heard the phrase, "Once in a Blue Moon," but did you know that >this is a phenomenon we will experience in the early months of 1999? >Popular tradition holds that when two full Moons occur in a month, the >second one is the Blue Moon. And in January and March of 1999, we will be >treated to two of them. >March will see the same scenario repeat, while February, being a short >month, will have no full Moon at all. Such a three-month sequence will not >happen again until the year 2018. With "millennium fever" spreading >worldwide, some might be tempted to see frightening portents in this lunar >phenomenon, but Schaaf assures the readers of Sky & Telescope that there is >nothing sinister in a Blue Moon.