scott wrote:
>> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or 
>> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and 
>> Hooke's law, would it?
> 
> Hooke was English.

...really?

Heh. You learn something every day.

Did you see the episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? where 3% of 
the audience thought that "Ludwig van Beethoven" was English? :-D (I 
have no idea what his nationallity actually was, but I'm fairly sure 
it's not a typical English name...)

>> At least at college we had somebody to tell us that "Euler" is 
>> pronounced /ˈɔɪlɚ/. When you read a book and you come across something 
>> like "Gödel", it's not trivial to figure out how the hell you actually 
>> proncounce that...
> 
> It is if you learnt German at school :-)  Knowing the basics of a few 
> common languages is quite helpful in life...

...[insert COBOL joke here]...

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