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- From: cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
- Subject: Re: American mathematical hegemony
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:57:18 GMT
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- In a previous article, dlm@sjfc.UUCP (Don Muench) says:
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- >From Craig Cockburn:
- >>
- >> And how much longer before a Cauchy sequence becomes a "COW-SHEE sequence"
- >> rather than a "CO-SHAY sequence"
- >>
- >I believe that most American ("Merkun", to some of you dweebs) mathematicians
- >pronounce "Cauchy" as "co-SHEE", which I believe is correct.
- >
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- I also believe it is right. Not all French words are first
- conjugation verbs.
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