Re: Pronuncing Pittosporum

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• To: dave-poole@ilsham.demon.co.uk
• Subject: Re: Pronuncing Pittosporum
• From: r*
• Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:04:45 -0700 (PDT)

Does anyone know where the custom of English speakers pronouncing the
final "i" in Botanical-Latinized surnames came about?  It's a custom up
with which I don't put.  (A simple ee-ee does it for me, as I suspect it 
would have for Caesar.)

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