RE: OT: Pseudo- tags

["Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

Marguerite Krupp reports: <<If I recall correctly, this is doubly punful
because Geoff works for an organization called FERIC. In chemistry, the iron
ion with the higher valence (+++, I believe) is called "ferric". Right
Geoff? BTW, what IS
"FERIC"?>>

I do indeed work for FERIC (the Forest Engineering Research Institute of
Canada), but the fe(r)ric pun is merely serendipitous. Ferric (as opposed to
ferrus) does indeed represent the +3 iron ion, and one wag observed that we
really should use <Fe> for only mild irony, <Fe+2> for serious irony, and
<Fe+3> for truly magnificent irony. Too subtle for my taste. <g>

--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
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