Lumen 22-4 Continental Conspiracy Posted – June 26, 2022 Irrelevant tid bit – New Guinea has 1,060 different spoken languages. Of course, that is an estimate because when most people were asked, “What language do you speak?” they did not understand the question While not being occupied with anything important, I observed that six of the names of our seven continents start with the letter “A”. I wondered about the significance of this since we Aristotle have 26 letters in the English alphabet and only the “A” gets this special continental honor. This has all the trappings of a Continental Conspiracy, which prompted me to investigate this affront to common sense. Australia and Antarctica - These two continents have complicated, intertwining naming histories. Much of the complication comes from the now strange Medieval notion that the north and south portions of our planet should have balanced sizes of their lan...