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Re: A few Questions

From: "Clark Weston" bk161 at rgfn.epcc.edu> on 2000.07.15 at 16:21:01(5122)
Hello Aroiders:
Alsocasia is a good bilingual pun, too. Also (English) casi a (Spanish)
might mean "Also almost at".
Regards, Clark
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Clark Weston
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> In a message dated 7/13/00 7:30:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ju-bo@email.msn.com writes:
>
> << Colocasia and Alsocasia do seem to
> be closely related >>
>
> Normally I do not comment on typos, but this one struck me: perhaps, if a
new
> genus very much like Alocasia was discovered, it could be named Alsocasia
(a
> pun with the word "also").
>
> Jason Hernandez
> Naturalist-at-Large
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>
>

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