roberts@sunray.UUCP (Robert Stanley) (11/18/89)
In article <2716@munnari.oz.au> ok@mudla.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard O'Keefe) writes: > ... Once upon a time Roman parents > with a lot of sons would start naming them with numbers: Tertius (3), > Quadratus(?) (4), Quintus (5), Sixtus (6), Septimus (7) and so on. ^^^^^^^^^ That's Quartus, Richard. Good thing Quintus (the company) didn't follow the other latinate sibling differentiation scheme, which was the one adopted at my old school: Max(imus), Ma(jor), Mi(nor), Min(imus), ... :-) Every time a new generation was introduced on the tail end, everyone earlier on the scale got bumped up one. Robert_S -- Robert Stanley UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!roberts Cognos, Inc. INET: roberts%cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Research) Voice: (613) 738-1338 x6115