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Re: Constellation names
From: Keith Williams
Date: 2003 Nov 2, 18:22 +0530
From: Keith Williams
Date: 2003 Nov 2, 18:22 +0530
...and of course in NZ, the moon is upside down, too..... I thought all sailing Brits knew that the Plough is regarded as merely a kind of saucepan in the US - and now we have to face it that (even into the furthest reaches of space, and therefore in a sense retrospectively) they may have remembered Shakespearean verbs (gotten, etc), but whenever their vocabulary supercedes (sorry, Bill - supersedes) the British original we must cede victory to them. But before we do, please would some linguists answer George's question - what names do continental Europeans use? Keith Williams