Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/10

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Subject: [Leica] "pheromone" for "phenomenon"
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:59:21 -0800
 
At 12:51 PM 1/10/00 +0000, Bernard wrote:
>there *is* such a word as "pheromone" in the dictionary. I wonder what the
the guy
>meant though. It means "any chemical substance released by an animal
>that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of
>the same species."<<<
>
>

I wish I could say that there is some deep philosophical meaning in the use
of pheromone, but there wasn't.

If you misspell phenomenon as "phenomonen", Eudora's spell checker gives
you "pheromone" as the first choice. I simply didn't double check what the
spell checker put in. It substituted "pheromone" for "phenomenon".

Simple as that.

Jim