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- From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: plaque
- Message-ID: <2307@hsdndev.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:49:39 GMT
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- Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA
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- In article <4=fr!f=@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu writes:
- >Good... now that we have "Dr. Science" on line maybe he
- >can clear up the following for me:
- >What is the difference between "an-gi-na" and "an-jy-na"?
-
- Pronunciation number 2 is much harder to use in jokes.
-
- >How much longer (or shorter) is a "sont-i-meter" than a "cent-i-meter"?
-
- A cent-i-meter is a unit of measurement used by
- physicists at non-Ivy League schools. A sont-i-meter is a
- unit of measurement used by academic MD's. To convert from
- cent-i-meters to sont-i-meters, add $60,000/year.
-
- Hope that clears things up.
- --
- David Rind
- rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
-