On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:57:34 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

[...dihydrogen monoxide]

> Using the erroneous di- form is the _opposite_ of pedantic!

Oh, my! Amateur guess: Using a Greek prefix where Latin should be?

Thanks, Peter! We need people like you.

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
Science education in Kansas: The water in
the oceans does not fall off the edges of the
Earth because it is God's will that it not do so.