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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 Jon Astill <jastill@xxxxxxxxxx.ac.uk> wrote

You could chuck another potential spanner in the works by arguing
whether Lucombe oak is evergreen or not too.

I would draw your attention to the wonderfully clear section 66 (3):

"(3) In this section "evergreen" means an evergreen tree or shrub or a
semi-evergreen tree or shrub."

Now if I was being really bloody-minded (what, me?) I'd argue that semi
means half, ever means always and green means green, so semi-evergreen
means green half the time. Otherwise known as deciduous...

-- 
Chris Hastie


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