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Letter: Letter: Wrongspeak

Published 24 March 1990

From JEAN WELBECK

Unless ‘Techspeak’ means totally inaccurate as well as linguistically
obtuse, you had no business giving a prize to Alan Larman for describing
a Christmas tree as a ‘seasonally appropriate non-deciduous crytogametic
angiosperm’ (Review, 17 February). The Christmas tree will have been a phanerogram,
not a cryptogram, and a gymnosperm, not an angiosperm.

Jean Welbeck Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Issue no. 1709 published 24 March 1990

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