au secours!

Dave Keenan sent me a helpful off-list communication that I would
like to relay to others in case they have been as confused as I am...
perhaps not likely, but also not an inconceivability...

I think Dave didn't post it to the list, since he doesn't really want
us to think that he's "back!" Au secours!

Hi Joseph,

You wrote: "... well it's a full Secors at 116 cents ...".

Please note that the interval is called a "secor". The first letter is
not capitalised (unless at the start of a sentence, which should be
avoided) and the singular does not have an "s" on the end.

Why? The man's name is George Secor, not George Secors. And a Secor is
a human, a member of his family, while a secor is the interval. This
is like James Watt of steam engine fame and the unit of power named
after him which is the watt. This is the standard for all units of
measurement named after people (except the "degree Celsius").

1 secor
2 secors
3 secors

Regards,
-- Dave Keenan