Precession and MD

Sojourner sojourner at vt.edu
Fri Sep 12 08:28:19 CDT 1997


>> At 8:51 AM -0500 9/10/97, Amy Elias wrote:
>> 
>> > [...] has anyone noted that the word "precession"
>> > [...] also refers
>> >to astronomy?  Is MD merging these two meanings of
>> >the word?
>> 
>> I think it's safe to say he's using both meanings, yes...
>> 
>

Yes, the grand and grandiloquent "æquinoctiorum præcessio"

(im OED crazed this morning forgive me lads and lassies)


	"I seened em, I seened da whites o' dey eyes,
	 and I shootess dem"

	   --Col. Hackworth (circa 1997)





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