Gnomonic friends & colleagues:
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the authority on the English
language worldwide. They have just issued a request for comments on the first
recorded usage of the word "dialler", involving a 17th-century citation in
Alice Morse Earle’s 1902 book Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday .
If you'd like to learn more, see
http://public.oed.com/appeals/mathematick-rules/ for full details.
- Woody Sullivan
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Prof. Woodruff T. Sullivan, III
tel 206-543-7773
Dept. of Astronomy & Astrobiology Program Box 351580
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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