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