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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39956757
I feel like this is a missed opportunity to spread the good news of the many other Latin pronunciation systems, particularly the traditional English system from which we get most of the English scientific pronuciations :)
Wow, i never realised how bastardized our pronunciations are in english lol. It's very subconscious though, since we've normalized these words as english.
That's caca and coocoo
Botanical latin's pronunciation:
Every vowel is pronounced, except diphthongs, which are treated as single long vowels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_Latin#Classical_pronunciation
There's also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_English_pronunciation_of_Latin
Ooof. That reminds me my mum saying "Coelogyne" (an orchid genus). It throws me a curveball:
Then I spend a few seconds thinking "selodine... no, that's not right" because the local dialect parses [dʒi] as /di/.
At least I don't have this problem with the Paphiopedilum. She simply calls them "sapatinho" (little shoe).