OT: Folk Etymology
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- Subject: OT: Folk Etymology
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:04:43 -0500
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> Might you be talking about the Gladwyn iris, which is indeed Iris
> foetidissima, also known as the Stinking Gladdon, and variations
> thereof?
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> Anner, in Virginia
> ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
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I guess the above 'translation' is something called folk etymology.
Earlier this spring there was a discussion on loropetalum or
razzleberri. In one of our local weeklies there was an ad for a
Memorial Week-end Plant sale. Included in the list of items on
sale was 'Laura Pendulum.' My curiosity got the best of me, so I
drove over to this garden center, and, indeed, what was listed as
'Laura Pendulum' was loropetalum and the corrupted name
appeared on a tag exactly so in every pot.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA (wondering if anyone knows how to
identify a male bois d'arc tree)
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