SOME STRANGE PRACTICES IN PLANT NAMING

Effective Factors on Naming Practices in Iran: Sociopolitics or Dialect?

Naming as an inseparable sign of a country’s language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. Iran appears like a proper destination for conducting a research focusing on naming based on several factors such as geography or chronology. The present article aims to take a specific look at th...

Strange Bedfellows : Issues in Object Naming Under UnixDouglas

Naming plays a key role in the design of any system that exports services or resources. Object systems may export many diierent categories of names: instances , components of records, types, etc. Operating systems export the names of les, devices, and services. Integrating an object base with existing operating system facilities can improve accessibility of the object base resources. We conside...

Naming Practices and Ethnic Identity in Tuva

effective factors on naming practices in iran: sociopolitics or dialect?

naming as an inseparable sign of a country’s language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. iran appears like a proper destination for conducting a research focusing on naming based on several factors such as geography or chronology. the present article aims to take a specific look at th...

The strange histories of some anatomical terms.

NAKED-EYE human anatomy employs some five thousand technical terms. The wretched student is still urged to acquire about halfthat number though anoverdue attempt is being made to reduce his burden. How many or how few of these words of The Art the medical man carries with him iWto practice no one can say. My own guess is that they amount to under a thousand, but even that is a considerable voca...