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Peter May wrote:
>  I never claimed to invent the term monad.  I did
> invent the term operad, as a portmanteau of operation and monad.
> Peter May
>
>
which I am happy to confirm
I think I was there at the time
or at least nearby

jim

Rainer,
    Is this covered in your memoir of those miravulaous years?

jim