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Tautonyms
A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.
Aaaand, reduplications, exact, double words of a different sort than my noun verb ones, are used for scientific names...bison bison...naja naja...lists are on the web...from wiki:
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The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).
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I find this very cool...sometimes they come in threes-bison bison bison...it is inferred that each word is a different level of taxonomy....
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Every recognized species on earth (at least in theory) is given a two-part scientific name. This system is called "binomial nomenclature." These names are important because they allow people throughout the world to communicate unambiguously about animal species. This works because there are sets of international rules about how to name animals and zoologists try to avoid naming the same thing more than once, though this does sometimes happen. These naming rules mean that every scientific name is unique. For example, if bluegill sunfish are given the scientific name Lepomis macrochirus, no other animal species can be given the same name. So, if you are a Russian scientist studying relatives of sunfish and you want to discuss bluegill sunfish with a Canadian researcher, you both use the scientific name and know exactly what the other is talking about.
from animal diversity web
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goodluck with exactly...
this notion has flourished in other "namings", like "epithets"...
tomorrowmorrow: epithets...and for sometime, double letters!
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