On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, David Silberstein wrote: #I don't see why "petroleum" would be a mistranslation since it #just means "rock-oil" in Latin. Latin form of a Greek word, but who's counting? -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website