pronunciations

[Liz Day]

When I listen to plant people, they seem to pronounce "eae" as "ee-ee".   Thus
Ericaceae (the heather family) becomes  ERR - ih - CAY - see - ee.

But then I pronounce antennae "an - TEN - eye", with a long i.  Thus I can 
be assured of being wrong at least half the time.  :-)

I vote for having different pronunciations for animals and plants, on the 
grounds that there is no linguistically complicated situation that can't be 
fixed by making it even more complicated. :-)

Seriously, my understanding is that there is no longer a single accepted 
pronunciation for Latin.
True?

Liz


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Liz Day
Indianapolis, Indiana, central USA  (40 N, ~86 W)
Home of budgerigar Tweeter and the beautiful pink inchworm (Eupithecia 
miserulata).
USDA zone 5b.  Winters ~20F, summers ~85F.  Formerly temperate deciduous 
forest.
daylight at kiva.net
www.kiva.net/~daylight
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