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Re(2): More than we wanted to hear on Dragons



On 95-01-28 at 22.15, xm9@sdcc12.UCSD.EDU wrote:

> That's "chthonic" - it's Greek, and the first 2 letters are
> "chi-theta" (chth), not "kappa-tau" (kt).  Geologists use this word
> root in, for example, 'allochthon", ("strange rock") a rock that has
> been transported far from its "home."
> 

Yes of course. A bit of Swedish transcription slipped in inadvertently. (I
guess that a German could have made the same slip.:-)

lars_bergquist@public.se

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