Hi Tim,
in the UK, you'd probably be rather surprised how many nuts your
fruitcake contains, none of them strawberries (thus the saying "as nutty
as a fruitcake).
Andreas
On 15/11/2012 5:59, Tim Gruene wrote:
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> Dear s,
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> I have heard this discussion before and reminds me of people claiming
> strawberries were nuts - which botanically may be correct, but would
> still not make me complain about strawberries in a fruit cake I
> ordered at a restaurant.
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> My Pengiun English Dictionary states (amongst other explanations)
> freeze: "to make extremely cold", so as long as you think your article
> is written in English, you did not say anything wrong, assuming your
> readers are intelligent enough to understand what you are trying to
> say - and in a crystallographic article, the process of 'freezing'
> your crystal is most likely not your main point where you need to be
> 100% unambiguous.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
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Andreas Förster, Research Associate
Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
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