[Taxacom] Asterales - uncouth

[Curtis Clark]

On 3/13/2012 4:59 AM, Weakley, Alan wrote:
> "Asterales" certainly has native language or country of origin variation in the last two syllables:  long a "AY" vs. or broad a "AH, and Z sound (voiced sibilant) vs. S (unvoiced sibilant) sound for the last consonant.  But at least it's readily recognizable in the various versions.

And to make clear that English pronunciation rules for Latin differ from 
ordinary English pronunciation, by the latter, Asterales would be 
ASS-ter-aylz. :-)

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