At 10:22 PM Tuesday 5/24/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Please...rose or lavender or even puce (although Teal is the One True
Color)...but *not* pink!!!
How about heliotrope? Or maybe fuschia?
Jim
Actually, Jim, it's spelled "fuchsia". It's named after a German botonist
by the name of Fuchs.
It's a very common spelling mistake, one I made all the time until my
mother the linguist told me the etymology of the word, and after that, I
spelled it correctly. (Nothing like the threat of a repeat lecture!)
Unlike, say, the number of times he heard a play on his name repeated . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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