From: Goodwin, Greg P. (GoodwinG_at_aafes.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 08:06:29 PDT
John,=3D20
Are you sure it's counter-clockwise and not anti-clockwise?* Absolutely
sure? Wouldn't you like to concede that if the Oxford English =
Dictionary
offers "anti-clockwise" as a legitimate word, it's acceptable at least =
to a
few people who think they might know something about English? ;)
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* Truth is, I grew up saying "counter-clockwise" and prefer it, but =
living
where I do, I find it easier not to quibble over something as =
unimportant t=3D
o
me as how to describe the opposite of "clockwise".
Anti and counter... both would work. And both do work.
How about retro-clockwise. ;)
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