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 ....................................................................... Item Subject: cc:Mail Text