On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote: (01)
> On Monday February 9 2009, John F. Sowa wrote:
>> Pat and Randall,
>>
>> ...
>>
>> RS> What do automotive engineers who share your linguistic roots
>>> do with "stoichiometric?"
>>
>> If they pronounce it the way it's spelled, they'd say
>>
>> stoy-kee-oh-MEH-trick
>
> That's how I learned it, though at the time I didn't know Greek from
> Hindi.
> (02)
And I still don't know Greek from Hindi. I speak English, myself: a
fine language, the dominant one on the planet, with its taproot firmly
in Old High German. Greek is all greek to me. (03)
Pat (04)
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