Jim: I've tried to email you off list, but your spam filter obviously doesn't like anything with the word "delights" in it. Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of J.E. Shields Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 2:49 PM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Spore elements I think I see the tracks of this usage. In German, Spur means track (e.g., bear tracks in the woods) and trace (very small amounts). Spoor is Afrikaans for track, from old Dutch "spor." The article cited by Peter seems to have been translated from a German original, and contains numerous mis-spellings and incorrect usages. It is not a suitable reference for English usages or spellings. Jim Shields At 07:35 PM 8/23/2012 +0100, you wrote: >Rolands use of the term "spore elements" seems to be confirmed here, no >language confusion! >http://www.arts-info.eu/en/fertilizing.html >where did the use of the word "spoor" come from? >Peter (UK) > > > >On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rodger Whitlock <totototo@telus.net> wrote: > > > On 23 Aug 2012, at 1:08, Bulborum Botanicum wrote: > > > > > spore elements > > > > A confusion between "spoor" and "spore" and thence between "trace" = > > "track", "spoor" (of an animal) and "trace" = "a minute amount". > > Etymologically the latter meaningn of "trace" is probably a > > development from the former. > > > > Is this cause for laughter and derision? No, of course not. Could > > many of us with English as our first language manage as well in > > another language? > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Lat. 40° 02.8' N, Long. 086° 06.6' W