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Re: Names

At 3:40 PM -0500 2/3/01, Larry Cartwright, you wrote about Re: Names:


Chuck Britton wrote:
> Taxonomy helps us communicate, but, as Feynmann was want to say,
> naming something doesn't denote understanding.

Non-physics nitpick here, but the correct usage is "as Feynmann was
*wont* to say". Wont is a peachy tidbit left over from Elizabethan
English, like peachy and tidbit. I'm assuming you are wont to wanting
the accuracy of your language to rival the accuracy of your physics.


Quite true, as others have noted.

I am wont (accustomed) to trust the spell checker too much.
I WANT a grammar checker that knows the difference!

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