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From Dick Mackin:
"Almost every week" isn't even accurate right now! [Blush] We hope to publish more regularly now. |
From Mark Lutton:
It's not that simple. How often are the seals and their serial numbers checked? How many opportunities arise during a typical international (or even intermodal) transport that would allow someone to cut a seal, steal something inside the container, and replace the seal with another, before somebody came along checking the seal serial numbers? Without answers to those questions, we still think that the question we asked about cutting the seal was entirely reasonable. And good idea about counterfeit seals! |
From Ken Hardy:
From David Marguccio:
Yep. Mike's Welsh, so he didn't want to admit that the Indian in Indian summer might be derogatory, as so many Welsh references are (just kidding, but he is a Brit, and Brits aren't as good with American etymology as Americans are). See what Melanie had to say about Indian summer a long time ago. |
From Andrew Charles:
Actually, the origin of the gyr- element of gyrfalcon has been suggested (leave it to TOWFI to find it, even if it is a bit late), though it is not Greek giros as we said last week. However, Giraldus Cambrensis was one of the first to suggest the giros connection way back in 1188. [Cambrensis means "of Wales", and Mike is from Wales - this week's theme, apparently.] What is believed to be the source of gyr- is Old High German gir "vulture", which derives from a root meaning "greedy". So Germanic speakers felt that the gyrfalcon looked and/or acted like a vulture, and they so named it. Learn more about the gyrfalcon at The Raptor Center's web site. We'll correct that issue (Issue 174). |
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