The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Steve Glover:

Um. There're a few errors in Cory's piece. We started in Waterloo Place, not Trafalgar Square (in an added touch of realism, there was an actual crater left behind when the spaceship was moved to Horseguards Parade) and the Sultan wasn't the little giantess's benefactor - he had had disturbing dreams of the girl and eventually arranged for a time machine to be built so he could follow her across time.

While the organisation left a bit to be desired in some places, I wouldn't have missed it for the world!

Nitpickery
The derivation is more or less right: it's 'dia' plus the verb to straddle (the word for siphon (which always looked Greek to me, anyway) is similar to the word for compass or dividers). It's "diarrhea" that has the word for 'flow' in it (think 'rheology')...

[apologies for the fake email address - every address I've ever used here gets spammed within less than a day]

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