Plain English words for hairs?? "ortho-" ="straight"

[Gurcharan Singh]

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From: Robin Leech <robinl at CONNECT.AB.CA>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Date: 13 November, 1999 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Plain English words for hairs?? "ortho-" ="straight"


>I do not know who told you that "ORTHO" means "bones", but he or she is
>wrong.  ORTHO means straight or upright, hence ORTHOptera (grasshopppers,
>crickets and the like).
>Robin Leech


No body told me and in fact I know the meaning of word as well as you do.
The only thing I was trying to point out was that we should not mix up
techinical terms with plain English. Common people connect "Ortho" with
bones (Orthopaedics) and we often hear people saying I want to show myself
to an Ortho..  (short for Orthopaedician). Now try as a fun. Ask some
nonbiologists the meaning of word "Ortho", and you will know what I was
trying to say.
  Man I am practicing taxonomist for last thirty years, have described six
species new to science, proposed more than 15 name changes. Don't presume
than you know more Latin or Greek than me.

Gurcharan Singh
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