Autotomic Curves

Abstract

IN answer to your correspondent, Mr. A. B. Basset, would not the Anglo-Saxon negative prefix “un” combine more euphoniously with “autotomic” than the Greek “an”? We find analogy for such a combination in the familiar words “unauthorised” and “unauthenticated,” where it is used in conjunction with words of Latin origin; so there seems no valid philological objection to its association with a Greek derivative, while the phrase “an unautotomic curve” would certainly sound more pleasantly to the ear than “an anautotomic” one.