Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!ddd From: ddd@brunix.UUCP (Dilip D'Souza ) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Rate of speed Message-ID: <3245@brunix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 11:18:38 EDT Article-I.D.: brunix.3245 Posted: Mon Jun 13 11:18:38 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 04:42:38 EDT Lines: 6 Once again, "rate of speed" does NOT mean acceleration. If we are agreed that acceleration is the rate at which speed is changing, consider this: (Taken from the NY Times Sunday magazine, 6/12/83, but there mut be lots more): "...there was a sharp increase in the rate of marriages that month...". Here, clearly, the only way for this to make sense is for "rate of marriages" to mean the number of marriages in some period of time (a month, here).