Thursday, November 30, 2006

Lexicography Watch

Hydrogenated oil
became
Trans fat.

Question for discussion: Why?

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Until today, I operated under the assumption that "trans" was an abbreviation. It seems I was wrong.

10:45 AM  
Blogger apk01004 said...

It's a foreign word. It's Latin for "across". I guess it should be written trans but you know how easy it is to forget typefaces. I just write it as I see it wrote.

4:14 PM  

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