In a message dated 5/10/99 8:48:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> This doesn't really make any difference to the points discussed,
>  but I can't help noticing stuff like this.
>
>  "Centurian" sounds just like "Centurion", who is a Roman army officer
>  commanding a force of 100 men.
>
>  "Centenarian" is a person 100 years old.
>
>
>  (cheers)
>
>  Susan Kline
>


Wow....Susan are you a Virgo by any chance???? perhaps Capricorn???
I'm printing this and using it for show and tell in my Abnormal Psych class.
We need examples of OCD.  And this one fits that bill to a T.

I'm using the term used by the authors of the books I've read.  Since they're
using
century as the root in the word, centurian seems correct.  I personnally like
the
sound of centerian better, has a kind of open, happy quality to it, dont you
think?

And who cares what it *sounds* like?

Anna L. Abrante   < truly befuddled >
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Peace.