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