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 > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > * *