Re: "Za"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

What does this have to do with "ZA"?

In a message dated 5/9/06 1:30:52 PM, jprucher at YAHOO.COM writes:


> --- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: "Za"
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> > >Larry, did they really call it "A-squared," or is it just you ?
> > >
> > >   JL
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> > I can't remember when they started to call it that--quite possibly
> > not in 1969-70--but at some point they did.   Anyone else want to
> > chime in with specifics?
> >
> > LH
> 
> They surely did (and do) call it "A-squared"; I can't help much with dating,
> but the term was well-established by the early 1980s.
> 

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