I got 'Gated' because the correct term would be 'mammary gland'. Mammary
merely means 'as pertains to', so there's no proper plural for it. I should
have said 'glands skyward'.
Back when our National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was deciding on a proper
name to change to (can't even remember why they changed), I euphemistically
suggested to an associate there 'Technical Institute of Traceability and
Standards'...
8^)))
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Wayman [mailto:HIWAYMAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:47 AM
To: INTERNET:olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] Re: [OT] PhotoPoint - dead or alive?
>Yikes!!! W.H Gates III got me. It turned 'mammaries' into mummeries???
I guess it should have been mammarys.<
Actually, I think it's "mammaries." However, being habitually politically
incorrect, I still prefer the somewhat vulgar "tits up," or maybe "teats
up" for the marginally correct. Let us all remember, though, that Ben
Franklin was right when he said, "It's a man with a small mind who can only
think of one way to spell a word."
Walt Wayman
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