On 11/15/2006 9:59 AM, john gilmore wrote:
Shane writes:
Whoa, better stop - ain't Friday yet, even here in the Antipodes.
I know that, among other things, 'antipodes' is Britspeak for 'Australia
and New Zealand', and thus legitimately plural; but I prefer the
definition that makes antipodes come only in opposed pairs (of points on
the surface of the earth connected by a straight line through its center).
From the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition the usage of antipodes
to mean Australia and New Zealand has an implied reference to the
western hemisphere. Thus there is a pair, but one of them implicit
rather than explicit. See
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=antipodes
Walt
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