Rankless English orthography

[Gurcharan Singh]

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Cantino <cantino at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Date: 09 March, 2000 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: Rankless English orthography


>>Dr. Gurcharan Singh wrote:
>>
>>> It will be more appropriate to use the expression "The family Rosaceae
>>is........"
>
>
>Mark Garland asked:
>>
>>What do you say if you get rid of ranks?  "The real historical lineage
>>Rosaceae is.."?
>>
>Philip D. Cantino
>
>The clade Rosaceae is....

Yes we are all leading to the same conclusion that we will use "the" and
"is" when refering to a particular "family", "order", "class", "division",
"lineage", "clade", etc.
Gurcharan Singh
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