"Johannes Patruus" <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On seeing "nuees ardentes" in the newspaper today used with reference
> to pyroclastic flows, I thought, "Aha, that must be a misprint for
> "nubes".
>
> But no, the silly thing turns out to be French, not Latin!
>
> O, the glory of ignorance!
>
> Patruus
Ah, ah. No accent over the relevant e? Well then, blame the newspaper! I
hope you hadn't started perusing that famous letter of Pliny the Younger
describing the Etna eruption and his uncle's death?
"Nubes ardentes"?
Ed
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