Gillian's got some wild ideas.

SO SPRINGWATCH presenter Gillian Burke thinks what we call African animals 'jars on her ears' because those who gave them English names once wielded power, so she prefers to use Swahili names (Mail). Why Swahili rather than any of more than 3,000 other African languages? It can't be because she speaks Swahili, can it? The binomial scientific classification was devised by the same people who call a giraffe a giraffe and, as Gillian rightly pointed out, it enables people to be sure they are talking about the same species. It is still used more than 400 years later because of its simplicity. As a presenter and writer, she must understand that the first rule of communicating is clear, concise transference of information. Using a different name for animals commonly known by another name only sows confusion, particularly among those who don't speak Swahili. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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