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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Sequoia, Sequoyah, Sequoya

SEQUOIA
Sequoia sempervirens, the (Pacific) Coastal Redwood or California Redwood, as well as the Sequoiadendron (Giant Sequoia) and Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood).

SEQUOYAH
Sequoyah, the Cherokee leader who invented the syllabary (Cherokee "alphabet"), never having been literate in a language.




SEQUOYA

My son. Please spell his name correctly.