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echo: atm
to: ATM
from: twentiethwave{at}hotmail.com
date: 2003-02-18 22:51:38
subject: Re: ATM Spelling...

From: "Bill T." 
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "Bill T." 



>I've heard this one before but "parabolic" is correct. And so is
>"paraboloid".

Look, "parabolic" is OK for talking about sliced up dunce caps,
but something as wonderful and perverse as the surface of a telescope
mirror deserves something a little better, for instance
"paraboloidal."

Now I've got you!  Texereau, page 17, 6th line up from the bottom.  Hah!!!

Bill T.


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