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To: left that other site; LadyEleanor; MestaMachine

Must quibble...

“Chernobyl” does not translate as Wormwood. “Chernobyl” translates as “Mugwort”.

Mugwort and Wormwood are plants of the same family (Artemisia), but are named Artemisia absinthium and Artemisia vulgaris, respectively.


77 posted on 02/15/2013 5:48:37 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: Old Sarge

Maybe, But the Ukrainian NIV uses that word to translate “Wormwood”. Perhaps it was a decision based upon local jargon, who knows. I just thought it was an interesting coincidence.

So your quibble is not with me, but with the Ukrainian Translators of the NIV.


92 posted on 02/15/2013 6:05:01 AM PST by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: Old Sarge

All this talk of wormwood has me wanting to take a shot of absinthe when I get home tonight.

Yum...


101 posted on 02/15/2013 6:11:43 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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