Nicholas Bodley wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:08:47 -0500, Doug Ewell <dewell@...>
> wrote:
>
> > 1. Maybe it's the fact that ASCII doesn't support subscripts and
> > superscripts, that typewriters "supported" them only at full character
> > size and only with manual frobbing of the platen, and that not
> everyone
> > writes in HTML.
>
> All so true. With plain text, I can understand; however, on a Web page,
> HTML is all-but universal (FTP directories and such might be
> exceptions),
> and subs and sups are quite easy to do.

Nicholas -

Web pages I am building for now on do not use html - they use xhtml and
css, and the tags you are thinking about are of little if any use - they
are deprecated...

> > And most people who call it "H-two-O" are not chemists or particularly
> > knowledgeable about chemistry; they are just using a trendy slang term
> > for "water."
>
> Indeed. (You remind me of the spoofs about dihydrogen monoxide, btw.)

Really? when we spoke of the formula for water in chemistry class long
ago, I could have sworn it was verbalized as "h-two-o". Has that changed?

Best,

Barry