That brings up another few points…

Not all of what we use is derived from Latin.
Much of it is derived from Greek… a totally different set of rules.
Although some of that Greek has been “Latinized”

Secondly, the binomial names could be derived from an language in the world and
then only punctuated with the Latinization of the original xenotypic word.

Leslie
HARF/IMCS


From: Olivier Caro <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Latin Pronunciation & CH

Imagine that CH can be eructed, as RHÂ!! For example, the city of Chania in
Crete is spelled HRÂnia and typed "Xania".  These songs sometimes miss an
accurate symbol : in Corsica, the same RHÂ is
typed CHJ, for instance.   Surprising, when we think that many nationalities
use this RH in their
language (Nederlands, south-Mediterranean, Arabic peninsula etc...), without
often any possibility to write it clearly.

So, maybe Xenophora has to be pronounced as RHinophora ?   (with a wet R
in "phora"?)

Caro (Kâ-Rô), Paris (with dry R's).


To: <[log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Latin Pronunciation

Leslie Allen Crnkovic <[log in to unmask] in part:
10 years ago I was told by numerous sources that although R.T. did a good  job
on the tape and book there are a lot of errors in his pronunciations.

Leslie... It's funny which lessons stick with you and turn out to  actually be
relevant.  I remember when a  professor of mine addressed the  "Latin name
pronunciation mess" by declaring that the only truly  important  thing is to
get all the syllables accounted for....regardless of which Part  of the word
you accent or whether or not you make, for example, the CH a  hard "cha" or
soft "sha".

During the 35 or so years since he told me that, I've found it to be  true.
I've traveled to many scientific meetings where animals were classified, and
generally referred to, by their Latin-derived genus and  species names. Experts
in their fields very often pronounce names differently.   Differences in
pronunciation seem to originate from different countries, different regions of
the same country, and even by who the speaker learned from and where that
education took place.....Norman

Norman Frank
Miami
FL