Talk:Botanical Latin
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Pronunciation
[edit]I took the liberty of adding IPA pronunciations to the table.
What is like aw in awl (diphthong)
supposed to describe? First, awl is a rather obscure word, and according to wikt:awl it's pronounced /ɔːl/ (rhymes with call). I'd say that Latin ⟨au⟩ is supposed to sound similar to (h)our /ˈaʊə/, just with a syllable split, i.e. /a.ʊ/. Not sure how to formulate an English pronunciation for that, but awl is probably very wrong. No such user (talk) 12:14, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. (I won't try to check the IPA, that's "all Greek to me".) Stearn says that the pronunciation of "au" differs between the "reformed" or "restored" academic pronunciation adopted by classical scholars, and "traditional English" pronunciation. For the Classical, he has "au as in house". For the traditional English, "aw as in bawl". I've moved the diphthong/not annotation to the column with the Latin, to perhaps clarify. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 13:03, 11 August 2016 (UTC)