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Re: Using botanical and common names

Jean Carpenter wrote:
> 
> I try to use the botanical names of plants but really feel like a fool when
> I try to pronounce one in front of someone who knows how it should be. There
> seems to be no real rhyme or reason for the accent being placed on a certain
> spot rather than some other. as in...li-RI-ope, instead of li-rop-e. Guess
> we need to take some lessons in latin or is it Greek?  How about CLEM-a-tis,
> instead of Clem-at-is.  Gets confusing sometimes. However, we don't mind
> learning and this list is doing a good job of it. I enjoy it very much.
> Jean Carpenter
> backhoe@scan.missouri.org
> Mountain View, MO

Agreed! In my identification classes in school, one of the favorites
was pi-TOSS-por-um TOE-buy rah  vs. PITO-spore-um to-Buy-rah. 

I really value Latin (hardly a "dead" language since most everything we
namr that has any more sophistication that a turnip comes from Latin)
but feel it's more important to scinetists, physicians, landscape
designers and the like, who must specify exactly what they're talking
about for precision's sake.  "Mock Orange" is fine with me...!
Glen Seibert
Fullerton, CA
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