Mark,

Your teacher was correct. But for another reason. There is no such word as
deacceleration. I believe the writer meant to say deceleration which is a
word that means to reduce speed.

Garrett Adams
83.5 Adventurewagen GL
Stockton, California

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Mark Dorm
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 9:15 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Better gas mileage without $$$$

acceleration is negative or positive - there is no such thing as
deacceleration... I lost points on a test once for thinking there was -
teacher was a hard a##.