On 23 Aug 2012, at 1:08, Bulborum Botanicum wrote:

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?