>Speaking of Roman numerals, I have just received for review a volume
>published by Teubner, using the date MIM - ouch. I thought there were
>conventions against this sort of thing, and a learned press such as Teubner
>ought to know better.
>
>Ian T.
>
I'm afraid the BBC has also been guilty of using it, not on their ordinary
TV programmes, but on a brief feature advertising what they will be doing
for the millennium. It shows a dispersed dandelion head coming together
again, with a series of Roman numbers flashed up, the penultimate of which
is MIM just before the MM comes on.
Incidentally, for non-Brtish readers, there is symbolism here, because in
popular folklore the dandelion seed head is called a dandelion clock--one
blows the seeds away successively to tell periods of time.
Nothing to do with medieval religion, I suppose, so George will probably
tick me off for irrelevancy...
Cheers,
Brian Donaghey
Brian Donaghey - Dept of English Language & Linguistics, University of
Sheffield - Tel. 0114 22 20213
...nec bibliothecae potius comptos ebore ac vitro parietes quam tuae mentis
sedem requiro, in qua non libros, sed id quod libris pretium facit,
librorum quondam meorum sententias, collocavi.--Boethius I pr.5
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