latin names

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• Subject: latin names
• From: b*@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Clark Weston)
• Date: Tue, 17 Feb 98 08:11:39 MST

I have heard that song and dance before about how NOT to pronounce PINUS, 
the genus name of pines.
I think that more or less correctly it is pronounced PEE-NOOSE, not PEE-NUS
But, you can say PINE-US if you want to.  After Latin is a dead language.
The heck, it is ubiquitous and besides, you find it everywhere. {grin>
Maybe someday we will find an old videotape in some old roman ruins or 
something that will straighten all this pronunciation flap out.

--
Clark Weston
>From The Hinterlands of The Franklin Mountains
<bk161@rgfn.epcc.edu>

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