CLEMatis...

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 11:36 AM 4/8/02 +0200, you wrote:
>http://www.saltspring.com/capewest/pron.htm gives simple rules for the
>English pronunciation of biological Latin, including taxonomic names of
>plants and animals. It recommends CLEMmatis. One might hope that people
>more often would look up pronunciation in some kind of source, dictionary
>or other.
>...
>Jan Ivarsson
>jan.ivarsson at transedit.st

Why?  We'll naturally pronounce words the way others around us do,
regardless of what a botanist says.  I mentioned CLEMatis in my
Sociolinguistics class today, and everyone laughed.

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