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I really enjoyed this article. I also love botanical names and I took Latin in school, so they're not as difficult for me to learn as they are for other people. I also love common names of all languages.

I think you might appreciate this paper, "New Plants, New Resources, New Knowledge: Early Introductions of Exotic Plants to Indigenous Territories in Northwestern North America"

at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10490097/

The author discusses how indigenous people incorporated new plants from Europeans not just into their diets and gardens but into their languages by giving them their own names.

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