[BC] Finding NEMO (a remote possibility?)

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

I have some faint recollection of a story in 10th grade Latin about a
character named Nemo who had beat-up on someone, and they had a hard time
explaining how "No Man" had beat them up.
 Was there any indication of why Jules Verne named his infamous captain Nemo
?
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:30 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] Finding NEMO (a remote possibility?)


> At 05:09 PM 11/9/2005 -0800, you wrote:
> >I, too, have seen "NEMO" as a designation on equipment from the 40s and
> >50s. I suspect it stems from the Latin, "No One". We probably would all
be
> >suspect of a label, "NOTHING" or "AUX", or "I don't have a name for
this."
> >"NEMO" was short and would fit the space allocated.
>
> Of all the stories spread about the origin of the word, this is the one
> most commonly cited, but while it makes a certain amount of sense, I have
> my doubts about it, for reasons I shall explain in my article!