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David Rance wrote:

Probably, but yes. I was 9 or 10 by the time I learnt the word
Fuschsia, those not doing well on the savanna! By that stage,
one of my schoolbooks was Die Geschichte von Herrn Reineke, I had
come across the name Fuchs (e.g. Klaus of that ilk) and I knew that
plants were often named after people. It was bleeding obvious!

What, the Beatrix Potter story? I thought for a minute you might have
been reading Reineke Fuchs, Goethe's re-telling of the old French fable
of Reynard the Fox.

The former! My German never was up to the latter :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.