Re: "floe" != mispelled "flow"

[Joe Cooper]

David Philippi wrote:
> Am Son, 2003-08-17 um 18.28 schrieb Jarno Elonen:
>
> > My dictionary reads "jäälautta: [ice] floe", so how about adding the "ice" 
> > before the "floe"? When I first saw the word in an earlier version of Pingus, 
> > I actually thought it was a typo, too.
>
>
> According to some dictionaries I've got access to the ice is already
> part of the meaning of floe. Perhaps someone with english as native
> tongue could shed more light on the matter?


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=floe

Wherein the definition of floe is given as "an ice floe".  I thought 
there were rules against defining a word with itself.  ;-)

Just "floe" is fine from my perspective, but "ice floe" isn't offensive 
either.  (I'm a native english speaker.)
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