[Taxacom] brunneus - bruneus, etc.

[Jacques Melot]

  Le 2007-02-22, à 15:14 +0200, nous recevions de Pekka T. Lehtinen :

>    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.


[J. M.]    Curieux raisonnement, en réalité ! 
Curieuse manière de laisser le subjectif décider 
de l'objectif... qui plus est en science !

    J. M.


>Pekka T. Lehtinen, commissioner of ICZN 1980-2000
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