Re: Pronounciation book
I agree with Marge. Fussing over botanical pronunciation is much ado about
nothing. In another life I was a classical Latinist. American botanical
Latin pronunciation grates my ears somthin' terrible. I have had my
pronunciation corrected, whereupon I reply "excuse me, ....." explaining to
my victim a few things he/she never wanted to know about the process of
phonologic change, the Great Vowel Shift and the continental vowel system.
The point being that my would be corrector knew what I was talking about in
the first place and was playing a little game. Botanical Latin is, after a
fashion, a living language subject to some of the same processes of change
as the languages we speak. As long as we know what plant we're talking
about, it doesn't matter how we pronounce "pinus".
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