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- From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
- Subject: Re: discs, was Re: Presently
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:39:20 GMT
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- slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
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- >Really? I was always taught that "mollusc" was the preferred form, since
- >taxonomic names are given in scientific pseudo-Latin and not in English.
- >Which stylebooks specify "mollusk"?
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- Webster's 3rd gives the word as "mollusk _or_ mollusc", implying that
- mollusc is a variant. The name of the phylum, Mollusca, is indeed
- pseudo-Latin & of course has the c.
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