aeuploids/aneuploids; was: Re: double-flowered tiger lily; was: Re: [pbs] Bulb Odds and ends

J.E. Shields jshields104@insightbb.com
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:08:24 PDT
Jim,

We are probably all just too polite to mention these little 
problems......<VBG>   Besides,  the Swiss spelling is "Strubelpeter" 
according to my Swiss wife, who grew up in Switzerland and  should know.  I 
would have guessed "Strüwelpeter" myself.

I'll bite on the aeuploid/aneuploid thing -- I've never seen the "aeuploid" 
spelling anywhere except in your message.  Tell us about it, please.

Jim Shields

At 11:28 AM 7/13/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, it turns out that Streuwelpeter/Stuwwelpeter was not the only slip of
>the typing fingers in that post.
>
>When I merrily poked fun at the "euphonically challenged  " who use the
>spelling aneupolids, I was a bit orthographically challenged myself: I
>should have typed "aneuploids".
>
>Isn't any one reading these posts? I've given all of you three
>opportunities (the Streuwelpeter/Stuwwelpeter thing, the misspelling
>aneupolid, and catchiest of all the aeuploid/aneuploid issue) to jump in
>and straighten me out, and no one has taken any of them!
>
>I'll attribute it to aestival lassitude.
>
>Someone please at least take the bait on the aeuploid/aneuploid thing so I
>can do my piece on that.
>
>Jim McKenney
>jimmckenney@starpower.net
>Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where the miasma has kept me
>in for the last few days.

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