Thank you Scotty, illustrated my point admirably!

Scotty wrote:
80% of my work in the last 3 years has been for China.

SV


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The Chinese have their own country now??
Scout

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
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Shouldn't that now be CHina?

FT

Scout wrote:

It's the American Heritage Dictionary. I think it's made in

Japan.

Scout

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I'm impressed. It even reads like the Queen's English, as well

as making

sense and being accurate. Are you _quite_ sure this is a US

literary

product?

FT

Scout wrote:


But of course! It's a proper, American Dictionary!
di·no·flag·el·late (dº"n½-fl²j".-l¹t, -l³t", -fl.-jµl"¹t) n. Any

of

numerous minute, chiefly marine protozoans of the order

Dinoflagellata,

characteristically **having two flagella** and a cellulose

covering and

forming one of the chief constituents of plankton. They include
bioluminescent forms and forms that produce red tide. [From New

Latin

Dinoflagellata, class name : Greek dinos, eddy (from dinein, to

whirl) +

Latin flagellum, flagellum; see FLAGELLUM.]

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In that case it needs to be a good one: make _sure_ it

mentions the

_two_ flagella--I'd hate to shortchange any poster to this

newsgroup,

especially those who've razed the level of wit and invective
lately--and the way the flagella appear to thrash out of synch,

one in

a groove and the other spirally. The confusion is only

apparent, not

real: it aids their microscopic filter feeding. But the lasting
impression is still of a lot of blind, pointless thrashing

about.

Flying Tadpole
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Scout wrote:



lucky you're here or I'd never get to use my dictionary.
Scout

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Yes, well, there seem to be a lot of dinoflagellates in the

waters at

present...

FT

katysails wrote:




No, just testing the waters, so to speak...you know...what

you

said...NOT...


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