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by jfnetsec 1500 days ago
almost completely off topic but btw the o in spectrometer, speedometer, worldometer, whatever is called an interfix. you've heard of suffixes and prefixes, well interfixes unlike those two have no meaning other than to join two root words (as in words that can't be used as suffixes or prefixes).
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You may be doubting if your comment was actually useful: thanks for posting it, for not discarding it.