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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 25/2/07 15:38, in article , "Alan Holmes" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 25/2/07 10:03, in article lid, "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote: In message , BoyPete writes snip Yes, I understand that now. Still, it's very off-putting to the likes of me to see all that Latin in a post, and I tend to skip them.....possibly missing some useful info. Botanical names are no harder, in principle, to cope with than vernacular names. All you have to do is not let them intimidate you. I'm guessing that for some people it's to do with pronunciation, too. But if you break it down into chewable syllables, it's much easier. And as to the *correct* way to pronounce things I wouldn't even begin to consider that as off putting because there seem to be as many variations in that field as there are plants to learn about. It's the old CLEMatis opposed to CleMAYtis thing and doesn't matter a jot, IMO, except as a bit of fun to argue about. ;-) A bit like the presant pronunsiation of Beaconsfield, which is a place where they had a beacon, but the 'posh' people call it beckons-field as in someone trying to get your attention, but I always refer to it as a place where there was a beacon! Ray, who is an Essex man, says much the same about people pronouncing Theydon Bois with 'bois' as in French, whereas the locals calls it Theydon Boys! -- It amuses me the way the toffs pronounce Aldeburgh. The locals pronounce it "Ollbruh". Regarding the latin botanical names, you should hear some of the distortions in pronunciation that USian academics come up with. I've been to science conferences where the USians distort one way, the Brits another and the Europeans yet another (the latter being close to correct, of course). Graham |
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