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point for pedants

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Subject: point for pedants
From: (John Leonard)
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 19:35:46 +1000 (EST)
Someone was mentioning Birds Australia as an example of a "French" name
change (adjective after the noun). In fact Australia is still a noun,
otherwise it would be "Australian". In this case "Australia" is a noun in
apposition, that is where the second, apposed noun, adds meaning to the first.

My problem with Birds Australia as a title is not the second element, which
simply adds the information that the organisation has a national ambit, but
the first?there's nothing to show that it's a conservation organistation,
and it could just as well be the national organisation of battery chicken
farmers.




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Dr John Leonard
PO Box 243, Woden,
ACT 2606, AUSTRALIA

" Old pond,
  leap-splash?
  a frog.  "  Basho

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