LL-L: "Creatures & Plants" LOWLANDS-L, 10.MAY.2000 (03) [E]

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Names

Sandy wrote (re the alleged Welsh/Cornish origin of "penguin"):

>And there's the fact that penguins have black heads, not white (gwyn)!<

But the name was first attached to the great auk of Newfoundland (flightless
seabird of the Northern Hemisphere) and only later transferred to penguins
(flightless seabirds of the Southern Hemisphere).

John Feather
johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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From: $ Elsie Zinsser [ezinsser at simpross.co.za]
Subject: LL-L: "Creatures & plants" LOWLANDS-L, 06.MAY.2000 (04) [E]

Haai, almal!

john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk] wrote
about the "Willam(s) B.C." pear, that "BC stands for 'Bon Chrétien'
..... the variety which may be the one used in South Africa,
since a lot of these fruit come from there."


Yes, I've heard that particular specie is referred to here in Afrikaans
as the "Goeie Christen" pear. There are obviously more than only
that specie grown here.

Groete

Elsie Zinsser

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