<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">If I were referring to such a phenomenon in a non-collation note I'd feel constrained to explain it: "asterism (i.e. 3 asterisks in a pyramid)". What of an inverted pyramid (much more common)? And in a collational <i>formula</i> I'd write "3*", and describe the arrangement in a further note, if the exact form needed specifying for some reason. What about six asterisks in a pyramid? </font></font><div>
<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Or is this a thickly pedantic response to a slightly tongue-in-cheek suggestion (for which I get maybe the lower half of a star for taking the bait, but no more than that)?</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">It's a wonderful word, nevertheless.</font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif"><br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">This is going around on facebook just now: there’s a name for the pyramid of three asterisks: asterism. We can use it in signature statements instead of trying to describe it, a la “[three asterisks in a pyramid]” .<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed" target="_blank">http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_%28typography%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_%28typography%29</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#215868">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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