"Des Higgins" wrote in message
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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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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?



Many people say TYnus which is probably "wrong" and is a very
Anglophone
pronunciation;
I would have said it that way until I went to Italy and lived in
Germany for
a while and became pretentious
and now I would say TINNus or maybe TEEnus but I think the former is
probably more accurate.
All that really matters is that you say it the same as all yer
friends; no
one really pronounces these names very accurately anyway.
In Germany, the pronuncaition of the latin name for Pine tree
(Pinus) always
raised a few schoolboy titters in sad English speaking
lads who had watched too many Benny Hill shows.

How about lichen?
Some same litchen but I always found liken to be much more manly and
forceful;
it is possible that both are wrong anyway.

Des in Dublin where de best English is spoke