Thank you Frank! What a fun thing to know! -Bill On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:11 AM, 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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