Category talk:Herbarium of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

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Renamed the category

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The former name of the present category was "Herbarium du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle". But that was wrong, mainly because "herbarium" is Latin and/or English for the French "herbier". So, if one wants to use the French contraction "du" in the name of the category, one has to use the French term "herbier" instead of the English term "herbarium". On the contrary, if one wants to keep the English term "herbarium", then one has to be consistent and replace "du" by "of", for English grammatical consistency. "Herbier du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle", this is correct in French. "Herbarium of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle", this is correct in English. But "Herbarium du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle", this is wrong because it is a mix of both languages. Since English is the most used language here in Commons, I made a choice, I chose the English form "herbarium of". Kintaro (talk) 11:15, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]