Re: anachronisms?

In article <1200253703@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Wayne Throop) 
wrote:

> ::: In the days of sailing ****ps to navigate you used dead reckoning. 
> ::: It was accurate. 
> 
> It was called "dead" reckoning, because that's what sailors who
> used it on the open ocean became.  Or... that should have been
> the reason, even if it wasn't.

Wellll... perhaps short for "deduced reckoning".

But your point still sticks, to a point.  :}