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OK, y'all boys are squarely (as it were) on to it. Anybody want me to post the answer?


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Yes, please. I haven't a clue.


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...leaves me pie-eyed (and I'm pleased to say I figured it out all by my lonesome, without having to look at the end of the MvS column).

How I want a drink - alcoholic, of course - after the heavy chapters involving Quantum Mechanics.

Here's a VERY heavy hint, if you want: http://members.chello.nl/r.kuijt/pi_onthouden.htm. Even if it is in Dutch.

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Does wofa's link do it for you, Jackie?


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we should try our own. either separately, or as a group?

I'll start a group:

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the "P" ...


Ha!! thought you'd fox us by ensuring that the second word must be a noun, did you???

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the "P" will

So, Rhuby, since when is the name of a letter not a noun?



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My point being, not that letter names are not nouns, but that the only 'normal' or usual single letter words are 'a' and 'I' and neither are really nouns - you couldn't say, "The I" or "The a.".
('X' could be allowable, if you stretch credibility just a bit. But you might as well also use letters that are used as an abbreviation for something.)



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I thought the "P" was might going to be an adjective...



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not so very many one-letter adjectives, for that matter, but I'll admit the potential.


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