White (and black) rhinoceros: or did you mean ‘wide’?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pancakes? Yes, but we’re not cake. A cake is baked, we’re cooked.

 

 

 

 

Killer whale [Orca]: excuse me, I’m a dolphin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please, don’t call me a bear! I’m a marsupial!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strawberries are not berries! [but bananas are …]

 

 

 

 

 

Peanuts are not nuts! Hazelnuts are, walnuts aren’t …

 

 

 

 

For your discussion the following questions may help:

Do things (plants and animals and us included) have a ‘real’ name?
Do names matter? Do they tell us what the thing (plant / animal) really is?
Does your name say who you are?
How many names can you have at the same time: David, son (+ brother + grandson + cousin + …), Year 5 student, …?
Are some of them more your real name than others?

 

 

                                                                                    [Pieter Mostert, 23 March 2020]