>>This will probably make some even more mad at me than than they already are, but I don't think that simply having a book in print means that you get to decide what something is called.

Hey Darin,

I agree... just publishing a book doesn't make someone ruler or king of everything... It's more of the path that most corn names come from. Some people start using X. Other people start using Y. If more people hear 'X' than 'Y', more people are going to use 'X' for the name. Once lots of people start using 'X', it really doesn't make much sense to use 'Y', simply because everybody already knows it as 'X'. And of course, one way to get alot of people to hear the name 'X' is to publish a book that lots of people buy.

People don't generally vote on what morph name they want to call something. Somebody comes up with a name, and as that name gets spread around, if people like it they'll continue to use it, otherwise they might try to come up with their own. It doesn't matter if a third party has the best name in the world for the morph. If the popular name is good enough, that's the one that gets used.

-Kat
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