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#ScribesAndMakers 4/28. Are you interested in etymology? Is there a word with an origin you find especially interesting? Indeed I am, you could go as far as saying I wrote a book on the subject. My writing career began with me writing articles for aquarium magazines, during which time I wrote more than 200 pieces discussing various aspects of reef aquarium maintenance. I was widely published and, at one time or another , have written for virtually every major English-speaking aquarium magazine in the UK and the US plus had articles published in France, Italy, and Germany. On retirement I wrote AQUATICAL•LATIN a non-fiction book which examined the etymology (the meaning) of the scientific names of around 950 species of the most common tropical marine fishes in the aquarium hobby. This involved me having to teach myself both Latin and Greek in order to translate these names as most of them are based on these two languages. You can find this title at: https://linkly.link/2ZykB UK and https://linkly.link/2ZylE US. It received a non-solicited 5 star review on Amazon. I’ve been known to laughingly refer to it as the book which established a new category of non-fiction books, unpopular science. This was around about nine years ago, since then I’ve been trying my hand at fiction. To this day, whenever I come across an unfamiliar word, I feel compelled to look it up, so I know what it means along with finding out its derivation. #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #Author #Novel