Dan BurzoMe, the other moment, thankfully to myself: huh, is „piatra ponce” (pumice stone) actually named after the (presumably renowned 19th century French savant) Pierre Ponce?!
Tunera Type Foundry@db It actually comes from Latin ("pomex", an alteration of "pumix", which gave "pumice"). https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9P3343
@tunera Haha, yep. I just thought I was funny that Pierre Ponce is such a plausible name, with the self-important Noun Capitalization on that label, that for a brief moment I thought I’d made a discovery :-P
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