[Taxacom] Zzyzx, was: Re: (HERBARIA]...

[Curtis Clark]

On 3/22/2012 8:30 PM, Kenneth Kinman wrote:
>        Is it me, [...?]

Perhaps it is just you, although we are talking about the same set of 
people who use /Aus bus/ as a hypothetical binomen (English 
pronunciation notwithstanding, I can't help pronounce that OWSS BOOSS 
rather than AY-us BEE-us).

> Let's get back to Latin names that actually fundamentally have
> something to do with the organisms themselves,

Perhaps impossible, since there are likely more animal genera, once all 
are described, than words in Latin and Greek combined.

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