Frank, Happy Leap Day. I have shared your Power poibt file on this with ny daughter so she dan use it in the Latin classes she teaches. She is having parties in each of the classes today.
Best wishes, Fred On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, Frank King <f...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > As is my four-yearly custom, I wish readers of > this list a Happy Leap Year Day. > > I was delighted, in 2012, when I sent out a > similar greeting, that not a single reader > queried why I had sent out the message on > 24 February. > > I will add my four-yearly lament that the > perfectly good English term "bissextile year" > seems to be almost obsolete. Around 100 years > ago it was in fairly common use. > > I continue to applaud the French, the Italians > and the Portuguese (just to give three examples) > who still use année bissextile, anno bisestile > and ano bissexto. > > Let us hope that they do not indulge in the > dumbing-down from which we in the U.K. seem > to suffer. > > Frank King > Cambridge, U.K. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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