Bucharest bits
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Bapopik at AOL.COM
Sat Sep 30 11:31:10 UTC 2000
Greetings from Bucharest. It's _Bucharesht_.
Romania is widely known for a blood-sucking human, but enough about William Safire.
Yesterday I visited Aquincum (the Roman site at Budapest). I have now seen every ROTAS square throughout the Roman Empire.
I've got about ten minutes, so here goes.
SILICON SHIELD--Craig Addison used this term in Friday's Herald Tribune. He's doing a book titled SILICON SHIELD, about Taiwan's role in the silicon industry.
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T SCRAP IT--about the nuclear industry, used in the FT, 29 September 2000, pg. 16, col. 2.
CINCs--acronym used in Friday's Herald Tribune describing the regional Commanders-in-Chief. It's pronounced "sinks," the article states--but why, I don't know.
Does OED have MAMALIGA, MITITEI, MOR LAM? I'll post later!
FLYING BENEATH EVERYONE'S RADAR--This was used in the International Herald Tribune for Friday, in a story about ICANN (Internet Corporation for AAssigned Names and Numbers). I saw it used in the 1950s 1960s, but since radar has changed, I haven't seen it recently.
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