Bulbs for South India
totototo@telus.net (Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:12:51 PDT)
On 25 Sep 08, at 19:43, jegrace wrote:
All thrive in South Georgia...
Is that the southern part of the state of Georgia in the USA, the southern part
of the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains, or, as seems most likely
given the capitalized "South", the island of South Georgia in the Antarctic
Ocean near the tip of South America?
Okay, I know I'm being a bit silly, but the world is a big place that's gotten
a lot smaller in recent time, so it behooves all of us to take extra care in
the way we write about where we, or our favorite plants, are.
A particular peeve of mine is the use of airport codes in lieu of city names.
If I said I was at YYJ, it would communicate NOTHING to the vast majority of
people. Those of you living in SFO or PDX or SEA, please remember this. When
you post to the PBS mailing list, your readers are not just local friends who
know the code.
Or to put it another way, never use abbreviations, slang, local lingo, or
anything else except fully spelled out, properly capitalized, formal names for
places and locales. And if it doesn't have a name, use Google Maps to find out
the longitude and latitude, and quote that.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island