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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. |
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