Spore elements

Peter Taggart petersirises@gmail.com
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:35:45 PDT
Rolands use of the term "spore elements" seems to be confirmed here, no
language confusion!
http://www.arts-info.eu/en/fertilizing.html
where did the use of the word "spoor" come from?
Peter (UK)



On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rodger Whitlock <totototo@telus.net> wrote:

> On 23 Aug 2012, at 1:08, Bulborum Botanicum wrote:
>
> > spore elements
>
> A confusion between "spoor" and "spore" and thence between "trace" =
> "track",
> "spoor" (of an animal) and "trace" = "a minute amount". Etymologically the
> latter meaningn of "trace" is probably a development from the former.
>
> Is this cause for laughter and derision? No, of course not. Could many of
> us
> with English as our first language manage as well in another language?
>
>



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