Re: Kaffirs limes and Lilies
William Glover wrote:
>
> On 1/11/01 1:27 PM Anthony Lyman-Dixon
> (lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
>
> > Surely words are
> >completely harmless and it is the attitude behind them that is
> >important
>
> Words can also have a highly charged and emotive history. While many find
> such neologisms as waitron, personhole cover, and vertically challenged
> ludicrous rather than incendiary, perjoratives such as nigger and kaffir,
> kike and coolie (among many disparagements in which English is
> particularly rich) - even when used in historical context - are
> indisputably highly offensive to many hundreds of millions whose legacy
> includes centuries of colonialism, slavery, brutality, and
> discrimination.
>
> On 1/12/01 5:28 AM Marina & Anthony Green (green@pangeanet.it) wrote:
>
> >Hmmm. I'm just completing the index of the year 2000 volumes of the
> >"Mediterranean Garden", where the
> >Kaffir Lily is mentioned. Does this have a PC name too?
>
> The 'Kaffir Lily' could be either Clivia or 'Crimson Flag' (Schizostylis
> coccinea), two
> long-established vernacular names for attractive S. African plants.
>
> William Glover
> Nevis, West Indies
Not just lilies and plums but limes too, never heard them called
anything different, but it would be useful to know if they turn up in
reference books under another popular name as I have trouble propagating
my only stock plant
Anthony
