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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Both spores and spoors leave prints, evidence of their presence or recent passing and both are, given sufficient expertise, definitive means of identification. In many spoken Englishes they are homonyms too, which increases the opportunities for confusion. My native dialect makes a clear distinction between moor/more, sure/shore, tour/tore and poor/pore, the former of each pair having two syllables rather than one, but few BrEnglish dialects do this. Anyway, to get back to the point, I suspect something eggcornish may be going on, and in both directions…
Now is prime-time for hunting (tracking) rhinos. ... All is not lost, however, for our tracker picked up on white rhino spore which he pointed out to us …
www.dartmouth.edu/~envsfsp/archives/fal … os99.shtml – 13k – Cached
Learning about how to ID animals, spore (footprint) identification … Searching for nocturnal species, such as the aardvark, porcupine and hunting lions. ...
www.worldwideexperience.com/mandelas_itinerary/ – 27k – Cached
Learning about how to ID animals, spore (footprint) identification … Searching for nocturnal species, such as the aardvark, porcupine and hunting lions. ...
www.worldwideexperience.com/mandelas_itinerary/ – 27k – Cached
Where smack dab in the center of this country, about twenty clicks out of Alice, a score of giant white mushroom spoor sit like scars on the desert …
space4peace.net/actions/pinegap.htm – 10k – Cached
Even experts can be fooled when hunting wild mushrooms. ... the go-ahead to pick the plentiful mushrooms, although he had not done the critical spoor check, ...
www.grit.com/article/2007/03/Mushrooms.html – 27k – Cached
One of the methods utilized in mushroom identification is to make a “spoor print†by breaking off the cap and leaving it overnight (fat side down) on a …
www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/12_06/ … oices.html – 28k – Cached
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