Re(2): Scaevola revisited
- To: t*@xtra.co.nz
- Subject: Re(2): Scaevola revisited
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 01:34:32 -0800
theryans@xtra.co.nz writes:
>Barry
>
>Thanks for this. Its amazing what turns up once one begins to pursue a
>theme.
>Perhaps I am being a bit paranoid, but I suspect chauvenism here. Why
>should it be presumed that a left-hander would be female?
Well, it may trace back to the story of scaevola, and so romans began to
use it more for boys than girls. The page was talking about latin
adjectives and they mentioned that Scaevola among other family names as
feminine because of the ending.
