[Taxacom] brunneus - bruneus, etc.

Pekka T. Lehtinen pekleh at utu.fi
Thu Feb 22 07:14:51 CST 2007


   Although I am a zoologist, not a botanist, the forms bruneus and 
brunescens sound very strange to me.
I had no latin in the school, but I use to learn the spellings of all 
words in all languages, when I have seen
them written sufficiently  many times. I don“t exactly know whether 
bruneus or brunescens are widely used
in zoology, but most probably not.  So, use of double nn seems to be the 
only linguistically correct form.

Pekka T. Lehtinen, commissioner of ICZN 1980-2000






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