Pepper-saxifrage

Silaum silaus is the Latin term; pepper saxifrage is the English name for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxifraga

Latin is the common language of scientists. By only using the scientific latin name for a plant you can be sure everyone is talking about the same plant. Plants especially tend to have a lot of "common" names and it would be impossible for botanists to identify plants in a universal way without agreeing upon one name. Using Latin names does that for them.

Here is the full story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature

There is, though, a certain scorn running about, re people who use the latin. People don't want to hear it. Not to mention that latin names change, as new connections are discerned.

I am a teeth gritter re common names locally, as I am asked, but it's the way of it.

The powers that be who change the names from time to time make me nuts, but there is no way I could function without knowing the latin (even I pronounce it with a Brooklyn accent)

I'm an old catholic girl gone bad, and I love the latin. This happened in bacteriology too, bacti being my first love. Even plague's name has changed, and much else.

I pronounce everything blando. You should hear my italian, it is to cringe.

We'll it's not like there are any 2000 year old Romans around to correct us.

OK, where's George?

Thank you. But I know that.But:
Why does PEPPER-SAXIFRAGE (Silaum silaus) calls Pepper-saxifrage in english ? Taste of pepper, why saxifrage ?