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Re: Latin is not a dead language OR Friday the 13th rises again Betty Batten 25 Jan 2006 14:46 UTC

Nope, just LIX.  bb

Betty Batten, MLS           bbatten@friends.edu
Serials Librarian                    (316) 295-5880 phone
Edmund Stanley Library         (316) 295-5080 fax
Friends University
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-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynne Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:55 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Latin is not a dead language OR Friday the 13th
rises again

Here's my candidate from last week:  International Financial Statistics
(put out by the Internation Monetary Fund, no less) thinks that the
Roman numeral for 59 is LVIX.  I wrote to them about it, suggesting that
they use arabic numerals instead!

Lynne N. Weaver
Serials Coordinator
Lipscomb Library
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
2500 Rivermont Avenue
Lynchburg, VA  24503
434 947-8396
434 947-8134 Fax
lweaver@rmwc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Diane Dudley
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:53 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Latin is not a dead language OR Friday the 13th
rises again

It seems to be experiencing a rebirth! I received this yesterday.

Yale Literary Magazine Fall 2005 Volume number:  xvij . Issue number: ij
(typed as is on the table of contents page) XVIJ  number IJ. I assume
this is volume 17, no. 2?

Diane R. Dudley

Periodicals Records Manager

Earl Gregg Swem Library

College of William and Mary

P.O. Box 8794

Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794

Phone: 757-221-1697

drdudl@wm.edu