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From: Phil Warn <>
Subject: Re: [ABOUT WORDS] Ellipsis
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:06:03 +0000
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Hi DERFB1,

A Mr Robert Lino, (1567-1634)

After whom, we have linotype, and linoleum, a form of floor covering.

However, the Russian Academy of Science disputes this and avers that
Russians have been found to have used almost everything before its Western
alleged invention.

Thus they say that instead of talking about macadamised roads (after Robert
McAdam, a Scottish engineer) we should be -----sying our roads, etc.

Phil.



At 23:34 01/03/2005, wrote:
>We all know who
>invented movable type.



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