Re: Fluorescent or incandescent?

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 02:43:58 +1300, "Paul J Kriha"
<paul.nospam.kriha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> > What's "louc^" in English? My idiotic dictionary says
>> > "resinuous wood". Yeah, okay, but what do you call those
>> > thin pieces of wood used for lighting in medieval times.
>> > And I don't mean torches.
>> > pjk
>>
>> Why *don't* you mean torches?
>
>Because I don't. I mean "louc^", not "pochoden^".
>
>> In American English it is exactly what that is ;-)
>
>Okay then, but I wouldn't know much about that.
>
>pjk

Try "taper". In Collins it corresponds with louc^, in a fa****on.

BTW, it is cheering to see a correct spelling of Fluorescent. Far too
often one encounters Flourescent.

roByks