The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names by John Wright

The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names

John Wright

320 pages hardcover 2014

4 editions

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Latin names--frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel--have been annoying the layman since they first became formalized as scientific terms in the eighteenth century. Why on earth has the entirely land-lo...

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