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Sacha[_1_] · 05-12-2006, 11:31 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 5/12/06 21:39, in article ,
"Chris Hogg" wrote:

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:43:14 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

"David Rance" wrote after Bob Hobden wrote:

"Farm1" wrote
Just curious, I heard someone on the radio teh other day talking about
Viburnum tinus and they pronouced tinus in a way I'd never heard
before ao it made me wonder if I've been doign it wrong for all these
years.

Would anyone like to have a go at putting on screen how they pronouce
tinus?

My book on plant name Latin says... teen-us

In which case it should be Veeburnum Teenus!

Correct. With the long i pronunciation as in keen not the short i as in tin.

So in Latin it's correctly ... Vee-bur-num teen-us ... according to my book.

By the same token, and according to my Latin dictionary, Pinus (as in
P. sylvestris, etc.) should be pronounced Peenus, which leads into
very dangerous territory with pronunciations such as Peenus contorta
or Peenus parviflora Adcock's Dwarf.

I think I'll stick with Pie-nus!

Oooh, we've done the pronunciation of Pinus before and have all come to your
conclusion from what I recall!
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