Help educating employer (Spanish Dept.)

[Robert K. Colwell]

Dear Joe,

Your boss sez:

>It seems a bit odd that botany uses ii for words that
>are supposed to be based on Latin. This does not seem
>reasonable regarding pronunciation considering modern Latin-
>derived languages such as Spanish that never double vowels
>in one word.

Parece que el *semiibecil* no sabe *leer*, ni el codigo botanico
*coordinado*,  ni el libro mas famoso de la literatura espanola, el
Quijote, por M. de Cervantes *Saavedra*.

I couldn't come up with any Spanish words with double U, but I bet a native
speaker of Spanish could. Well, four vowels out of five should suffice....

Rob Colwell

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Robert K. Colwell, Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U-42
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3042
Tel: 860-486-4395   Fax: 860-486-3790  Internet: <colwell at uconnvm.uconn.edu>
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