Item Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Bactrians & Dromedaries (was Date Intrinsics and              Stargazers)
Wirt writes:

> But even more interesting perhaps, the Arabic word for camel is "gimmel,"
> from which the Greeks derived their letter, Gamma, and its name -- the
> symbol for which is a pictograph of a camel. In fact, if you look at the
> letter Gamma, you can still easily see the camel.

Drat.  I guess the ink-blot test would be lost on me, as I fail to see
the camel with either upper- or lower-case Gamma.  (That's the one where
the upper-case one looks like a hangman scaffolding, right?  And the lower-
case version looks like an upside-down "AIDS ribbon?")

However, as for Omega -- now THERE's a (single-hump) Camelus! ;)

--Glenn

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