In other words, the “'language myth' myth” produces a history of linguistics that is as segregationalist — if not more so — than the linguistics it is purporting to describe.

A résumé of diagnostic characters of the five families represented in Australia is also given, and a list of the 19 genera described from Australia is included

Evers shut his eyes and saw zinnias, roses, hollyhocks, snapdragons, gladioli, delphinia, meadow rue and petunias with soft, downturned petals and beads of yellow in their middles.

He often took to the hills when his mother-in-law was in town.