Pedants Delight

[Spacecadet]

Even the fecking dictionary woz wrong init

[NotAllThere]

Post of the day. Especially like the footnote that it is atmospheric pressure that starts it off, but the pressures soon equalize.

[OwlHoot]

I think atmospheric pressure does more than start it off - You need atmospheric pressure to prevent the a portion of fluid from the highest point of the siphon simply parting from the rest and falling out.

I doubt if van der Waals forces are enough to hold the fluid together.

So the pedant may be wrong, or not entirely correct, himself.

(or maybe I'm wrong)

edit: Oops - As this is a thread about pedants I felt obliged to add a comma after the word "correct"

[NickFitz]

At least the word actually exists, unlike dord