In article , Charlie
Pridham writes

Well as I understand it the original

Original? ICBN? Linnaeus? pre-Linnaeus?
They've had latin names for a good long while, since Latin was the
international language of scholars.

setting up of plant names in Latin it
was agreed internationally that the pronunciation of the Latin words
would
reflect the way the locals in a particular country would pronounce the
same
letter combinations.

Hmm ... I wonder what they reckoned people with languages who didn't
have those letter combinations (ore even any letters) were going to do?


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Kay
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