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Colloquy. Ed Wolpow writes about Darryl Francis's "Chemical Symbolsof Elements 110 and Beyond" "We seem surely to be at the veryedges of elemenymy, with putative element names in the thousands. Let mesuggest a list of names that are possibly more deserving--the originalLatin names for those eleven elements where there is a mismatch betweenthe English name and the chemical symbol: Ag silver ARGENTUM: ARGUMENT Au gold AURUM: KURUMA (Web3). Susan Thorpe found 15 transposals,all locations, including AMURU (Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea(păp`ə, –y ), MAURU (Finland),RUUMA (Somalia), and UMURA (Nigeria) Cu copper CUPRUM: OPERCULUM operculum/oper��cu��lum/ (o-per��ku-lum) pl. oper��cula ? [L.]1. a lid or covering.2. the folds of pallium from the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes of the cerebrum overlying the insula. (Web3). Darryl Francis notes RUM PUNCH(Chambers), and Susan Thorpe found CHUMPUR (Bolivia) and CURUPIM(Brazil) Fe iron FERRUM: FRUMPERY. Darryl Francis found FRUMPER (OED OEDabbr.Oxford English DictionaryNoun 1. OED - an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principlesO.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary ), andSusan Thorpe found transposals REFURM (OED, reform) and FREMUR (France) Hg mercury HYDRARGYRUM: TETRAHYDROPTEROYLGLUTAMATE (Dorland'sMedical Dictionary Dorland's is the brand name of several different medical dictionaries and ancillary products, chiefly Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (currently in its 31st edition) and Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary (currently in its 27th edition). ) was unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia.Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. by Susan Thorpe. Is there a MARYHURDY-GURDY? K potassium KALIUM: LEUKEMIA. Darryl Francis located KAMULI (TimesIndex-Gazetteer) and Susan Thorpe found 30 transposals, including IMALUK(Australia), LUKAMI (India), MULIKA (Kenya) and KUMAIL (Iran). LAMPUKIand MAULKIN are both in the OED. Na sodium NATRIUM: MATURIN. Pb lead PLUMBUM: BLUE-SPOTTED HUMMINGBIRD (Hummingbirds of theCaribbean, by Tynell & Tynell). Darryl Francis proposesRUMBLEGUMPTION (Web3) and BUPHTHALMUM (Web3); Susan Thorpe foundLUMPUMBU (Congo) Sn tin STANNUM: HUNTSMAN. Darryl Francis equals this with PUNTSMAN(Web3) or STUNTMAN stunt��man?n.A man who substitutes for a performer in scenes requiring physical daring or involving physical risk.stuntmann → especialista mstuntman(Chambers; two words in Web3). Sb antimony antimony(ăn`tĭmō'nē)[Lat. antimoneum], semimetallic chemical element; symbol Sb [Lat. stibium,=a mark]; at. no. 51; at. wt. 121.75; m.p. 630.74°C;; b.p. 1,750°C;; sp. gr. (metallic form) 6. STIBIUM: AMBITIOUS. Darryl Francis equals this withBISMUTHIC (Web3); both he and Susan Thorpe suggest MISBUILT (OSPD OSPD Official Scrabble Players Dictionary ,Random House) and Susan adds SUBLIMIT sub��lim��it?n.A limit or ceiling placed on a subdivision of a larger category, especially of nuclear weapons: negotiating sublimits on the number of land-based, intermediate-range missiles. (American Heritage). She alsofound transposals MUSIBIT (Oman) and BISMUTI (Indonesia). W tungsten WOLFRAM wolfram:see tungsten. : FLATWORM flatworm:see Platyhelminthes; worm. flatwormor platyhelminthAny of a phylum (Platyhelminthes) of soft-bodied, usually much-flattened worms, including both free-living and parasitic species. Sir Jeremy Morse writes "Two of Rex Gooch's highlyprofessional articles provoke the following reflections: (1) Where thereis a serendipitously perfect example of a word-type such as theheterogrammatic AMBIDEXTROUS ambidextrous/am��bi��dex��trous/ (am?bi-dek��strus) able to use either hand with equal dexterity. am��bi��dex��trousadj.Able to use both hands with equal facility. , is there any point in rehearsing inferior(obscure, archaic, coined, etc.) examples--unless of course they exceedit on its own terms? (2) Rex attacks the Oxford Guide to Word Games overits treatment of Lewis Carroll's APE--MAN word ladder. But examplesusing ordinary words have a value of their own. Even if they are notrecords, they demonstrate the delights of logology to outsiders andnewcomers--something Carroll well understood." Ed and Gudrun Wolpow write "In 'We Need a Word ForIt', the first example What do you call it when one nods off for afew seconds and then jolts awake? has an answer. The word NYSTAGMUS NystagmusDefinitionRhythmic, oscillating motions of the eyes are called nystagmus. The to-and-fro motion is generally involuntary. Vertical nystagmus occurs much less frequently than horizontal nystagmus and is often, but not necessarily, a sign of , nowonly used for certain abnormalities of eye movements, was originallycoined with just this meaning; as I recall it started with the headmovements of senators in the Roman Forum listening to a dull speech. Itbadly needs revival, in its original sense." Rex Gooch writes "In his article 'Toward a More LogicalKeyboard' Anil uses the same basic data [as he did in'Anacrograms'], though he loses much of its value by usingrankings ... Depending on frequency, but not rank, it might make senseto put some keys underneath the keyboard! He writes as if there is onekeyboard layout, but there are necessarily very many even just in Europe(two in Canada), including AZERTY layouts. His keyboard is differentfrom mine. Extensive studies more than 50 years ago made use oflaboratories to trace glowing fingertips; [keyboard reformers] have ahuge amount of work and expense ahead. He does not mention home keys.Losing the semicolon semicolon:see punctuation. In programming, the semicolon (;) is often used to separate various elements of an expression. For example, in the C statement for (x=0; x<10; x++) encourages those who do not know what it is for;abolishing the carat (^) stops non-text searches in many word processorsand text editors; and { } are meaningful in mathematics. There is no dot(decimal point) on keyboards. So far, he has only considered aboutone-third of the [non-letter] keys. There are designs which physicallyseparate the keys for each hand. "In the same article, he upbraids the USA for not goingmetric. That, however, is true of many countries, however things mayseem on the surface. The United Kingdom is a country in which, forexample, by EU diktat dik��tat?n.1. A harsh, unilaterally imposed settlement with a defeated party.2. An authoritative or dogmatic statement or decree. , it is a criminal offence to sell potatoes by thepound. But when I shop, I buy 450g (.991b) or 907g (21b) jars of jam,568ml bottles of milk (one pint), and so on, and there is no choice. Inthe same way, many engineering parts worldwide are specified withdimensions such as 25.4mm. I wonder if Australia is'metricated' likewise ... The metric system metric system,system of weights and measures planned in France and adopted there in 1799; it has since been adopted by most of the technologically developed countries of the world. is not in any casedesigned for everyday use, as with inches, feet, yards, cubits and miles(mille passuum = 1000 paces), which are all based on the human body. Themeter (and hence kilogram) is based on an inaccurate estimate of aquarter of the earth's circumference, which is difficult to comparewith the rod whose length you may wish to guess. A problem has been thatpeople have not accepted that science and everyday life have verydifferent demands, so different systems are appropriate." Darryl Francis notes in the May 28 Sunday (London) Times thefollowing 96-letter pangrammatic window in an article headlined'Global Warming Might Not Be So Bad, if We Keep Our Cool':"in his ne[w book Revenge of Gaia, he scares himself into theapocalypse lobby by gazing at the ubiquitous J-curve of carbon diox]ideemissions as it shoots off the top of the graph". George Jellis asked Rex Gooch a question which will interest fansof the idea that words consist of alternate vowels and consonants(CVCVCV ...). Was it, he asked, helpful to use words of this form inhunting 10-squares? In fact, Rex's best four 10-squares have justthree such words among the 40. Only another eleven words have just onedeparture from the pattern, leaving 26 with multiple departures, likedeSCeNDaNT itself. At 10 letters, the number of words excluded includeswords beginning SC, SH, ST, CR, as well as words ending -NG, -NT etc, sothe word stock, which needs to be huge, is grievously affected. In the May issue Anil used the number of pages in Web 3 to estimatethe number of words starting with each letter. The following tablecompares Web 3 with the actual word count from the Oxford AmericanDictionary (180,000 words); the dictionaries agree quite well.("0" = <0.5.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]