[Taxacom] Family names are plural. Period

[Mike Dallwitz]

> The funny cartoon Jim Croft referred to could have made a nice 
> conclusion if what it makes fun of were the main subject or problem 
> in this/these thread/s.

It _is_ the main problem! Expert opinion is quite clear that collective 
nouns can be either singular or plural in construction - see, for example, 
the links I gave in an earlier posting. Obviously the same reasoning can be 
applied to taxonomic names, whether or not they are strictly collective 
nouns. But 95% of the contributors to the discussion (Martin's figure) know 
that the experts are wrong.

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