May I say thanks to all contributors for the entertaining and informative
discussion on names. Is it only a week since I feared it was dying out and
tried to stir a bit! To clear my mailbox without losing the possibility of
checking back, I moved all 'common names' messages (or I hope I got them
all) into an MS Word file - it's now 13,613 words long, though that
includes addresses, etc.
Well done! (And we're probably not finished yet, either.)
Syd Curtis at Hawthorne
PS. My favourite 'personal' common name: "Half-robin" My mother, Hilda
Geissmann, went to Tamborine Mt. as an eight-year old in 1898. No
bird-books. No-one to teach her. So she had to invent names for the birds
that became her friends. The Yellow Robin was obviously that, but the
Pale-yellow Robin was clearly different. It was only half as yellow so it
became (and remains for me) the "Half-robin".
S.
H Syd Curtis
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