pronounciation of english
Lee Poulsen (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:17:35 PDT)
John C. MacGregor wrote:
On Jul 27, 2010, at 1:12 AM, Zonneveld, B.J.M. (Ben) wrote:
By the way those that insist on keeping close to the English name of a
person seem to forget that there are people speaking other languages
after whom plants are named How do you handle these?
You pronounce the commemorated name as closely as possible to the way
the bearer of the name pronounced it in his/her original
language--then add the latinized ending. This approach works no
matter what language you are dealing with!
Okay, I think I can do a decent job of this until they name some new
species after someone with a click in their name. I just can't seem to
throw one of those sounds into the middle of a bunch of normal
consonants and vowels. And some of our South African friends might just
well do that with some future new bulb species...
:-)
--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a