Jim, We are probably all just too polite to mention these little problems......<VBG> Besides, the Swiss spelling is "Strubelpeter" according to my Swiss wife, who grew up in Switzerland and should know. I would have guessed "Strüwelpeter" myself. I'll bite on the aeuploid/aneuploid thing -- I've never seen the "aeuploid" spelling anywhere except in your message. Tell us about it, please. Jim Shields At 11:28 AM 7/13/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Well, it turns out that Streuwelpeter/Stuwwelpeter was not the only slip of >the typing fingers in that post. > >When I merrily poked fun at the "euphonically challenged " who use the >spelling aneupolids, I was a bit orthographically challenged myself: I >should have typed "aneuploids". > >Isn't any one reading these posts? I've given all of you three >opportunities (the Streuwelpeter/Stuwwelpeter thing, the misspelling >aneupolid, and catchiest of all the aeuploid/aneuploid issue) to jump in >and straighten me out, and no one has taken any of them! > >I'll attribute it to aestival lassitude. > >Someone please at least take the bait on the aeuploid/aneuploid thing so I >can do my piece on that. > >Jim McKenney >jimmckenney@starpower.net >Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where the miasma has kept me >in for the last few days. ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA