On 1/6/2011 2:44 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
D Yuniskis wrote:
There was a girl named Pandora who made a similar
mistake (except it was a *jar*, in her case)...

jeff_wisnia wrote:

I remembered that it was her *box*.G

It was a jar. According to the wikipedia, it was mistranslated (around
500 years ago) as box and that has stuck in some places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box

Ah! I forget how many little bits of tid wikipedia hordes!

In my case, Greek friends set me (and a few teachers)
straight on this decades ago (along with "pea" vs. "pie",
"mee" vs. "mew", etc.)