botany book and pronunciation

Carol Jensen jorna@mobilixnet.dk
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:09:38 PDT
At 23:31 13-07-2005, Judy Glattstein wrote:
>in 2002, and gave a small lecture at the ISU meeting. After which I was 
>gently chided for pronouncing it Viola tri-color, when of course, I was 
>told, it should have been Viola tree-color. O.K. My ego doesn't bruise 
>quite that easily.
>
>Judy in humid and thunderstormy New Jersey
>_______________________________________________

I also have wondered about the "pin" pronunciation of "i". Europeans, at least, pronounce "i" as Italians do. I think my Latin teacher in high school did too - she was Italian.

In Danish people say "tri-colores".

Carol 



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