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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/21/2012 7:41 PM, David Randall
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<div>lierne - n. - in astronomy, the repeated observation of
an object each sidereal day. Named for Jean Li<span
style="line-height: 19.183332443237305px; ">é</span>rne,
an assistant to Charles Messier.</div>
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<div>Hutch (2) + Linda (2) + Elliott (2) + Correct Guess (2)</div>
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<div>Nicolas: Mine, will probably not fool anyone.</div>
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<div>Linda: 2 points because I was once an astrology buff. </div>
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<div>Pierre: 'é' isn't valid in French there.</div>
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<div>John Joseph: <span style="background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); ">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.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Elliott: </span>Why
not? Two points.</div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Me,
David: I am impressed with the knowledge of French
accents in this group!</span></div>
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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).<br>
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