Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/31

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Subject: Re: Tassie Tiger
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 01:19:38 GMT

At 22:51 01/11/97 +1100, you wrote:
>> Favourite animal; Thilocene ("Tasmanian tiger", extinct carnivorous
>> marsupial)
>
>Don't want to be too picky, but being "part" Tasmanian - The Tassie Tiger
>is a Thylacine [Thylacinus cynocephalus] from a Greek derivation I cannot
>type meaning pouch because of its Marsupial lineage.
>
>Alastair Firkin,
>
>http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html

No, not at all, accurate information is entirely a good thing. I assume that
this is the correct spelling!

Joe Berenbaum