Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> also "Afro-American"?


No worse tha using a French surname combined with a word of
Native-American origin, e.g. as in

"Nicot[iana] tabac[um]"

I reckon.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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