Language for taxonomic names, redux

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Mar 1 12:53:42 CET 2017


> On 1 Mar 2017, at 08:03, Yury Tarasievich <yury.tarasievich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 01/03/17 10:45, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>> But please name it '-taxon', as the other name's orthography is somewhat
>>> un-memorisable (ae or æ or e).
>> 
>>  ‘ae’, obviously.
> 
> Well, yes, but not 'obviously’:

Yes, obviously. Uses of the æ ligature in English are pretty old-fashioned. 

Michael


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