[Dragaera] ford ford and Tukko
Philip Hart
philiph at slac.stanford.edu
Tue Mar 15 14:21:05 PDT 2011
Reading this:
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/science-highlight/2011/january/easy-get-hard-get-out-x-ray-structure-and-mechanism-rna-polymerase-ii
e.g. cis-diammine(pyridine)chloroplatinum(II) being called pyriplatin,
I was reminded of some compactifications we see in Paarfi.
My older son's nickname as an infant was "cutie-pie", perhaps because
that's what various strangers called him; that got shortened to "pie",
and then just "pi"; we sort of celebrated Pi-day yesterday. My younger
son, by extension, is "pi'", or just "'".
Here's wikipedia on "nickname":
The compound word ekename, literally meaning "additional name", was
attested as early as 1303. This word was derived from the Old English
phrase eaca "an increase", related to eacian "to increase". By the
fifteenth century, the misdivision of the syllables of the phrase "an
ekename" led to its reanalysis as "a nekename". Though the spelling has
changed, the pronunciation and meaning of the word have remained
relatively stable ever since.
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