Jim Sharkey wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Please...rose or lavender or even puce (although Teal is the One
True Color)...but *not* pink!!!
How about heliotrope? Or maybe fuschia?
Jim
Actually, Jim, it's spelled "fuchsia". It's named after a German
botonist by the name of Fuchs.
It's a very common spelling mistake, one I made all the time until my
mother the linguist told me the etymology of the word, and after that, I
spelled it correctly. (Nothing like the threat of a repeat lecture!)
As I'm neither your mother nor a linguist, I don't necessarily expect
you to remember -- but I'm hoping that at least one person who makes
that spelling mistake will manage not to do so in the future after
reading this. (And if I have to show it to my kids in 10 years to make
that happen, so be it.)
Julia
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