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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39956757
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Wow, i never realised how bastardized our pronunciations are in english lol. It’s very subconscious though, since we’ve normalized these words as english.
That’s caca and coocoo
Ooof. That reminds me my mum saying “Coelogyne” (an orchid genus). It throws me a curveball:
- Ecclesiastical - [tʃe.lɔ.'dʒi.nɛ]
- regional (Portuguese speakers) - [se.lo.'ʒi.ne]~[se.lo.'ʒi.ni]
- her pronunciation - [se.lo.'dʒi.ne]
Then I spend a few seconds thinking “selodine… no, that’s not right” because the local dialect parses [dʒi] as /di/.
At least I don’t have this problem with the Paphiopedilum. She simply calls them “sapatinho” (little shoe).
Botanical latin’s pronunciation:
Every vowel is pronounced, except diphthongs, which are treated as single long vowels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_Latin#Classical_pronunciation
There’s also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_English_pronunciation_of_Latin
