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Subject: Re: Re: A Query
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Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 04:47:22 EDT
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References: 5941ux.287 burl.181

	If a three-part series is called a trilogy,
	and a four-part series is called a tetralogy,
	then a two-part series is called a bilogy, not a biology.

...and a one-part series is called a monology.

Someone had to do it,

Donn Seeley  UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF  ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn
	     UCSD Linguistics Dept.     sdamos!donn@nprdc

PS  This is what comes of reading too many stories by Stanislaw Lem.

PPS  My vote is for "dilogy".  This would be on analogy (sic) with

	monad, dyad, triad, tetrad, ...  (for linguists or philosophers) or
	monomer, dimer, trimer, tetramer, ... (for chemists) or
	monode (why not?), diode, triode, tetrode, ... (for EEs)

I think "bi-" is Latin but "di-" is Greek (any classicists out there?).