Pronounciation

["Alan Gillanders" <>]

Katrina and Wim highlight some of the problems. Yes I agree that the 
citizens of the USA often add extra syllables to any word which already has 
four or more. The Germans however add an extra syllable on the end of family 
names so Rosaceae become ' rro SA ce ay' if educated in botany but other 
wise more like 'rros a ke ay'.
A Dutchman thought we could better converse by using the scientific 
binomials but it actually made it worse. I had a German professor of 
mycology who once spent most of the day and a lot of wasted energy 
'correcting' my Latin. I told him that as an ignorant old Aussie bushy I was 
incapable of being educated but he persisted.
Regards,
Alan 

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