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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