On 18/6/07 03:48, "NABOKV-L" <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:

> My automatic associations were:
>
> Lukin - 'luk' (onion)
>
> Luxon - 'luks' (luxury)
>
> Lukashevich - 'Lukash', a Polish version of the name Luke, and also
> 'lukoshko' - a sort of basket used for mushroom or berry-picking.
>
> I realize those might be idiosyncratic, and wonder what did the others think
> of?
>
> Irena Ksiezopolska

Irena: to mathematicians & computer scientists, Jan Lukasiewicz (with a slashed L) is the great logician immortalized in the term ‘Polish Notation’ which he invented in 1920.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

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