[Baz]

Quick anecdote.......

When I was in college studying Ornamental Horticulture, we had classes called Plant Identification. There were three different courses with over 20 plants per week. We had to learn everything about the plants....with a weekly quiz that included identifying sample plants in a lab plus spelling their names - including the Latin (or Botanical or Scientific) names.

I had a fellow classmate and we would come up with word-association to help us where possible.

The Holly family is Aquifoliaceae - so Aqua is Latin for water, which is shiny like a holly leaf - for example.

My buddy gets credit for the C.M.....it's Latin name is Lagerstroemia indica. Lager=beer - we like CM's......and we like beer.....and there you have it....lol.....