Difference between revisions of "Erratic - erotic"
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| − | + | Do not confuse '''erratic''' ("not accurate, off target" - connected with '''to err''') and '''erotic''' ("to do with sexual desire" - from the name '''Eros''', the ancient Greek god of sex). | |
| − | (There is also a noun in used in the subject of Geology. An '''erratic''' is a rock that is found in a different place from that in which one would expect to find it. Some '''glacial erratics''' found in East Yorkshire were carried here by the glaciers of the Ice Age from the Lake District. Knowledgeable people may be surprised to find granite from Skiddaw in the Holderness boulder clay: they should not be, if they know it is a '''glacial erratic'''.) | + | (There is also a [[noun]] in used in the subject of Geology. An '''erratic''' is a rock that is found in a different place from that in which one would expect to find it. Some '''glacial erratics''' found in East Yorkshire were carried here by the glaciers of the Ice Age from the Lake District. Knowledgeable people may be surprised to find granite from Skiddaw in the Holderness boulder clay: they should not be, if they know it is a '''glacial erratic'''.) |
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Revision as of 14:55, 6 August 2007
Do not confuse erratic ("not accurate, off target" - connected with to err) and erotic ("to do with sexual desire" - from the name Eros, the ancient Greek god of sex).
(There is also a noun in used in the subject of Geology. An erratic is a rock that is found in a different place from that in which one would expect to find it. Some glacial erratics found in East Yorkshire were carried here by the glaciers of the Ice Age from the Lake District. Knowledgeable people may be surprised to find granite from Skiddaw in the Holderness boulder clay: they should not be, if they know it is a glacial erratic.)
