Klarinet Archive - Posting 000661.txt from 2000/02

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Spellling
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:11:18 -0500

In all of the very scholarly discussion of microphones and microphone
technology, I think I have only seen one message in which the word "cardioid"
was spelled correctly. The word has four vowels, three of them consecutive.

Here's a mnemonic device to help. The word means heart-shaped. Cardi-, for
heart, as in "cardiac arrest", and -oid, meaning shaped like, as in "spheroid".

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Cardioid.html

Now, does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen?

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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