[ExI] New Bioscience Company Raises $15 Million to Revive Woolly Mammoth

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 13:26:27 UTC 2021


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 4:16 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> You mean "composed".
> «comprise» and «compose» are roughly reciprocals, not synonyms.
>

Let's not be grammar nazis. We all knew what John meant.


*Comprised of is an expression in English that means "composed of" or
"constituted by". The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Collins
English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionaries regard the form comprised of
as standard English usage.*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of

-Dave
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