Re: Tpronunciation?

From: skid at bway.net on 1999.01.15 at 19:12:57(2903) The book 'Botanical Latin' notes that there finally, is no correct pronunciation of any botanical Latin. It has a different and unique history from 'spoken' Latin. It is further pointed out that hundreds of years ago, when several European countries got together and each spoke 'Latin' (the only common language) each individual's Latin 'sounded' like the home language, so much so as to be almost unintelligable to the others. A friend of our's, who is well known in plant circles, told us early on that the most important thing about Latin pronunciation is to: "Say it with authority". +More So.......you say potato and I say potato, it just doesn't sound the same, but we all know what we are talking about. Billl & Harvey SKID Plants Zone 6 CT USA

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