Botany

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Mon Feb 8 17:33:04 UTC 2010


A rose is a rose
And was always a rose,
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The Dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose
But were always a rose.

--Robert Frost.



---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:42:06 -0500
>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>)>
>A rose is a rose is a ... cherry?
>
>Joel

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