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Old 23-02-2008, 06:56 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default anyone using mycorrhizae?


In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
| In message , Jeff Layman
| writes
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| Seems that mycorrhizae is in common use. Probably far more so than
| mycorrhizas. (Would you prefer "mycorrhizata"?)
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| About 2 to 1 on the evidence of Google. (198,000 vs 92,300.)

I wonder which way it is going :-)

| I haven't trusted the OED since "monied" was disallowed on Countdown...

That's Countdown's error, not the OED. It's there. Both the Second
Edition (1989) and the New Edition (currently in draft) make it quite
clear that it is in current use.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.