Longitude... Melvin Bragg

[Uncle Gizmo]

Listening to Melvin Bragg's excellent podcast on longitude,

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I happened to notice the spelling of longitude.

I've always pronounced it "longditude" and was very surprised to see that I have been mistaken all this time!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Oh, that's allright, Uncle G. Around here we give you a lot of latitude in what you say.

 

[kevlray]

For me I just call the imaginary lines that go from pole to pole.