[leps-talk] 2 interesting butterfly papers
John R. Grehan
jrg13 at psu.edu
Tue Mar 26 12:33:58 EST 2002
>>
>>PS: Of nomenclatorial interest I noted the capitalization of "Diana"
>>which is I
>>believe archaic and not-to-code (It can't be just a copyeditors bad
>>judgement in
>>the contents or that would have affected the names in the second paper as
>>well). MG
>
>Speaking as a copy editor, I'm betting you're wrong, wrong, wrong. (We
>copy editors just love to say that.)
>Diana is a girl's name. Spellcheck picked it up and fixed it, and the copy
>editor failed to notice and shudder away from this egregious error.
How is Mike wrong? He was also 'betting' it was not a copy editor's bad
judgement.
>Americans, by the way, are not allowed to spell judgment with that middle
>e, fond though I am of it.
Not quite true. American are allowed to spell with an e when they go to
Canada or New Zealand etc., and publish in a variety of journals, and on
the lep list as far as I know.
John Grehan
Frost Entomological Museum
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Entomology
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University Park, PA 16802. USA.
Phone: (814) 863-2865
Fax: (814) 865-3048
Frost Museum
http://www.ento.psu.edu/home/Frost/index.html
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