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Responding to Douglas S. Dodge's article on binomial nomenclature, Why All Living Things Have Latin Names [XIX, 3,44], it would be appropriate to point out that bacteria also have genus and species names, adjudicated by a separate International Code of Bacterial Nomenclature.
The discussion of Spoonerisms [EPISTOLAE, XIX, 2, 17] should, I feel, not be closed without mentioning at least a few more of the classic examples of the genre.
I am writing to add to Mr. Douglas S. Dodge's contrepèteries , as he requested [EPISTOLAE,XIX, 217]: after smoking France's favorite cigarette for the first time: Qu'est-ce que c'est une Blauloise Gueue?
John Kahn's article, Lexicographic Quirks and Whimsy [XIX,2,10], which touched on the definitions of animals in early dictionaries, reminded me of one of my favorites, from Edward Phillips's New World of Words (1720):
Your breezy note on street names [OBITER DICTA, Name Withheld, XIX,2,20], suggested certain categories that might lend more pizzazz to the scene.
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