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Podcast Edition of Away With Words.

I'm Martha Barnett.

My co-host Grant Barrett is off reading about the

secret life of fricatives. If you don't know what a fricative is you might want to

look it up. In the meantime I'm sitting here thinking about the secret life of flowers.

But first, let's talk about the secrets tucked inside their names.

Take the flower called a gladiolus.

Do you think his name comes from the fact that you're glad when it blooms?

Well, no, the name gladiolis comes from the Latin gladius, which means sword.

And as you might have guessed, gladius is a linguistic relative of the word gladiator.

And the name Gladiolus refers to the long pointed leaves of the plant.

Some flowers are named for botanists. If you've ever sniffed a bagonia or pruned camellias or picked the dahlia,

then you've run into a flower that commemorates one of these experts.

Which brings us to one of the greatest botanists of all time, Carolus Linnaeus.

He was born 300 years ago this summer in Sweden.

Now, you may remember that Linnaeus was the guy who developed the system of binomial

nomenclature that's the method of classifying plants and animals using Greek and

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