Neil,
Unfortunately most Americans (or is that americans) think Grammar is
some one you visit at Thanksgiving and Christmas for a free feed.
Carl Clifford
On 30/12/2007, at 11:59 AM, Neil Cheshire wrote:
Richard,
The contagion of lower case for bird names has unfortunately spread
from American scientific journals in
recent years. The passage below perhaps illustrates the problem with
this approach.
" When the group arrived at the lake a little egret was seen and a
few minutes later a larger egret flew in.
Later a singing honeyeater was heard but this became inaudible when a
noisy miner appeared."
Somewhat inconsistently they retain capitals for a personal or
geographical element of a bird name.
Neil Cheshire
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