[Fictionary] Lierne Answers

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

HI, again, This did sounded neither French nor German to me, but I figured it was at least European.  Linda  Again, I know just a smattering of stuff.
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From: J-J Cote <jjcote at alum.mit.edu>
To: fictionary group <fictionary at swarpa.net>
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] Lierne Answers
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:18:04 -0500


On 12/21/2012 7:41 PM, David Randall wrote:

Nicolas
lierne - n. - in astronomy, the repeated observation of an object each sidereal day. Named for Jean Liérne, an assistant to Charles Messier.
Hutch (2) + Linda (2) + Elliott (2) + Correct Guess (2)
Nicolas: Mine, will probably not fool anyone.
Linda:  2 points because I was once an astrology buff. 
Pierre: 'é' isn't valid in French there.
John Joseph: Needing to come up with some reason to reject a definition, I think a name like that would have an accent grave rather than an accent aigu.  But I could be wrong.
Elliott: Why not?  Two points.
Me, David: I am impressed with the knowledge of French accents in this group!
Well, you are dealing with a couple of guys named Pierre and Jean-Joseph.  And I assume Pierre is even some kind of French guy (as opposed to me, an ethnic mongrel born and raised in Massachusetts who just had a couple of years of French in high school).

J-J
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