Interesting about all the stuff about why the "I' isn't acceptable...
I just knew it wasn't because I needed to know such things for labels on
photos forstock... otherwise, given who played it, I might have let it go.
I'll skip the youtube if ya dont mind
ann
On 7/15/2015 7:05 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
On 15 Jul 2015, at 22:52, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/14/2015 10:47 AM, Jack Davis wrote:
Have we decided that it's an Hibiscus coulteri?
Thanks again, Ann!
J
No, we have decided it ain't - because of the skinny leaves there are jsut too
many dammed hibiscuses On an irrelevant to photography note - I won a challenge
against US/World and Canadian Champion Scrabble player, Joel Wapnick, some
years back In a fairly important tourney when he tried to get away with
HIBISCI. A rare moment in my tourney history. Didn't keep him from winning that
game though. I have beaten him, but not in any signifigant tourneys.
Still friends though :-) ann
http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=945
Over here the dictionary that official Scrabble words come from is Chambers,
and a Latin plural is not given, so hibiscuses is the plural in UK English too
- and that's what is given in Chambers.
It's interesting to note, though, the confusion online about the Latin plural,
indeed about the gender and even existence of 'hibiscus' - at least one of the
online dictionaries claims it is 2nd declension feminine - which doesn't exist!
All 2nd declension nouns are masculine or neuter.
My print dictionary (Collins) has hibiscum as the Latin for marsh-mallow, and
does not have 'hibiscus' at all. Hibiscum is 2nd declension neuter, so the
(nominative) plural is hibisca. In this form 'hibisci' exists as the genitive
singular: 'of the marsh-mallow'.
Some of the online etymologies give 'hibiscus', which is masculine, as a later
Latin form (presumably later than the Golden Age) but they don't say how much
later. So it changed gender during the course of its development - a genuine
paradigm shift. In this later form 'hibisci' is the correct Latin nominative
plural.
So there you have it, in case anyone asks why it was disallowed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KAfKFKBlZbM
B
P.s. I think it's H. moscheutos, which would make it a swamp marsh-mallow, and
therefore a cross-language pleonasmic tautological redundancy.
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