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LauraV
at Fri Oct 7 09:27:00 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by LauraV ]
such a map that I saw years ago. It had both the formal name and Hogg Island next to it. In fact, I used to call them Hog Islands until I saw that map, because I assumed they were referring to our pigs (I was being ethnocentric)...when I saw the map, I assumed then that I was mistaken and they were not referring to our pigs. So, I started calling them Hogg Islands. I knew nothing of "Hogg" denoting intergrades (just learned that yesterday), only what I saw on a map, which must have been notated by an illiterate person or one that was not too familiar with English words. I just didn't know that then.
In any event, I certainly wouldn't assume (I've done enough "assuming" all Hogg boas were integrades and all Hog boas were pure; it doesn't matter to me how it is spelled, same with Surinam/Suriname, as long as genetics can be backed up.
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