English Latin?

[Robin Panza]

To the best of my knowledge, it is simple ignorance.  Latin is rarely learned
in school, at least in the U.S., and biological pronunciation is rarely taught
in any official way.  We pick up pronunciation from listening to our professors
and by making up a sound when we see it written.

Robin Panza                     panzar at clp2.clpgh.org
Section of Birds
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh  PA  USA

>IS IT OFFICIALLY VALIDATED WITH ANY ENGLISH GRAMMAR RULES to use the manner
>to pronounce any Latin or  other  foreign names following English  rules
>of pronunciation instead of their native ones?
>
>OR  IS IT   JUST A CUSTOM  IGNORANCE not depending  on  any  legitimized
>grammar rules?
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>---
>Valery A. Korneyev, Executive Editor, Journal of Ukrainian Entomological Society