Lapeirousia season

Randall P. Linke randysgarden@gmail.com
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:44:13 PST
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:23 AM, MARK MAZER AND FREDRIKA MAZER <
markmazerandfm13@earthlink.net> wrote:

> And I notice that his name was spelled both Peyrouse and Peirouse.
> >
> Jim,
> The 'Y' spelling was originally an error by Pourret's (1788) artist,
> continued by Ker (1802 and 05), and finally corrected in 1955 by Lawrence.




> Since we have gotten off on the topic of word meanings, languages,
> spellings and naming I will just pipe in with this...


> Standardized spelling is a rather recent concept, for instance German was
> not standardized until after unification in 1870, as easily witnessed by a
> gravestone in a nearby cemetery from the 1840s.
>

>
And of course honorifics are very common, such as Albizia, after poor
> Albizi who made it no further than the street below the balcony he fell
> from in Greece.
>

Randy

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