Dialogue about the catalog (and pronouncing names)

[Robin Leech]

The French pronunciation is Lee-nay.
Robin
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Subject: Re: Dialogue about the catalog (and pronouncing names)


> At 19:45 2002-06-22, Susan B. Farmer wrote:
> >Which is the English Fashion and which is the European?  A hundred years
> >ago when I was an undergrad, family names ended in -AY-SEA-AY; now (at
> >least my major professor) they seem to end in -AY-SEA-EE.  I still hear
> >both -- and I say both.
>
> Both are English. Northern European pronunciation is often AH-tsay or
> AH-tsee, I believe Italians and perhaps other southern Europeans say
> AH-chay. (I'd love to be either confirmed or corrected by botanists from
> those countries.)
>
> When I was a zoologist, everyone said lih-NEE-us, but most botanists in
> anglophone North America seem to say lin-AY-us.
>
>
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