Re: Puta-Puta-Name-The-Brute
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- Subject: Re: Puta-Puta-Name-The-Brute
- From: T* &* M* R*
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:38:16 +1300
- References: <382e8e18.552718@mail.u-net.com>
Tim Longville wrote:
>
> Moira - Help! Please can we have its Latin name?? No doubt we all
> OUGHT to be fluent in Maori but some of us have enough trouble with
> English....
>
Tim
And all the Spanish speakers who are so distressed!
Sorry. I can't think how I failed to furnish the scientific name. Try
Carpodetus serratus on for size. It is the ony species in NZ, but has a
few relatives in New Guinea. It belongs to the Escalloniaceae and was
one of the species collected by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage.
Puta is a perfectly respectable word in Maori, whatever it means in
Spanish!!
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
