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Initial post 29 AUG by Margaret Furness
Rose Annual 1960, pp. 16-19, The International Code of Nomenclature.
I note that there was no prohibition of tacky/sleazy names, but given the (wryly amusing) disregard now evident of other aspects, it wouldn't make any difference.
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 29 AUG by jedmar
This seems to have been constructed for American registrars, for whom foreign names were an anathema. See Art. 37 b: I wonder what the undesirable connotations of the French translation of Golden Lady are! And to call 'Danse du Feu' 'Spectacular' is immoral????
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