Talk:aaron

RFV discussion: June 2022–February 2023
Cuckoopint (a plant). I've heard of plants with this name in the name, e.g. Aaron's rod, but not alone, and not lower-cased. Equinox ◑ 21:13, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It's not as improbable as it looks, because cuckoopint is an arum, and came from . No explanation, though, as to why there should be an English term based on a nonstandard (why "aa"?) transliteration from Ancient Greek. In "Aaron's rod", Aaron is from the name of Moses' brother in the Bible and is completely unrelated. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:33, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I found the probable source (the Century Dictionary). It looks like folk etymology has changed into the Biblical name, with the usual lame explanations that make their way into 19th-century nature writing (I find it amusing how they go into great detail about some of the silliest things, but are completely silent about the origin of cuckoopint). At any rate, I can find uses in uppercase, like this and this, and uppercase mentions that show that it can appear without "root" like this, this and this, but I have yet to find lowercase usage. This is probably explained by the folk etymology. At any rate, I haven't found enough to pass this even in uppercase, but I'm sure it's out there. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:53, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed Ioaxxere (talk) 04:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)