Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
> > Even 500 years ago, people knew the Earth was round.

> """
> In fact, people have known since at least the 4th century BC that the 
> earth is round, and the pseudo-scientific conviction that we actually 
> live on a disc didn't emerge until Victorian times.
> """

  A disc is "round". A torus is "round". A ring is "round". A cylinder is
"round".

  Why do they always use "round" to mean "spherical" in this context,
given that the meaning of the word is not very exact?

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                                                          - Warp

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