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From: "Ralph Hancock" <hancock@dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Birthday abbreviations
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:49:05 -0000
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A classicist friend is having his 60th birthday and a cake is being made for
him, with 'Happy 60th Birthday' on it in Latin. There is not enough room on
the cake for anything as long as 'Felicem diem natalem sexagesimum'. What
would be an authentic-looking abbreviated form?

Thanks,

Ralph Hancock
hancock@dircon.co.uk
www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm



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