[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Quick, which is the correct term: "specieation" or "speciation"?"

Quick, what does this have to do with the legitimacy of the word *kind* in taxonomy?

[muawiyah]

I'm not part of the discussion concerning "kind". However, having studied Old West Gothic as well as Old English (such as it was BEFORE the Norman invasion), I will say that "kind" is just the sort of word an Anglo-Saxon scientist would have selected to mean "species".

The use of French and Latin based words is a modern affectation (if you will).

I don't happen to know what the Hebrew word is that is translated as "kind", but it's probably fairly similar to the earlier Sumerian word for "kind".

You might check that out for us. Always bothers me to draw too heavy an inference form an English translation of Latin or Greek or Aramaic which is, itself, a translation of earlier Hebrew, or Egyptian, or Sumerian. You just never know what "kind" of trouble you might get into doing that.