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BULLETIN OF DENISON UNIVERSITY. 
to give an account of it, with special reference to the most prevalent 
errors in pronouncing scientific names. 
The scientific terms falling strictly under the rules for the English 
pronunciation of Latin are the following : 
1. Real Latin words, including many generic names and most 
descriptive names of species. The specific names are, of course, 
adjectives. 
2. Real Greek words, put into a Latin form and accented always 
according to the Latin rule. They are mostly nouns used as generic 
names. 
In latinizing them, kappa is changed to c; alpha iota, to se; om- 
icron iota, to oe, (except in the ending -oides and a few other cases); 
upsilon, to y ; and epsilon iota to i, sometimes to e (the instances in 
which it is represented by ei are mostly mere blunders). Theta, phi, 
chi, become th, ph, ch, respectively, which are always to be reckoned 
as single consonants. 
3. Modern derivatives and compounds from classical sources 
and with classical endings. They include nearly all names for divi- 
sions higher than genera, and likewise the vast majority of recent gen- 
eric names, mostly compounds of Greek origin, but all in a Latin form. 
4. Many quasi-latin words, not of classical origin but having a 
Latin ending and classical appearance, and falling readily under these 
rules (e.£. Catalpa, Cuscuta, Robinia, Batatas.) 
A class of quasi-latin words (^.^. Woodwardid) subject to these 
rules only in part, and another class {eg. Whiteyi) not subject to them 
at all, will be mentioned at the end of this article. 
SYLLABLES.- 
Each Latin word has as many syllables as it has separate vowels 
and diphthongs. Ae and oe are usually diphthbngs and printed ae, 
'■q have tried to make more clear the following rules, by giving in paren- 
theses the correct pronunciation of some of the words cited as examples. In 
some cases, where the pronunciation could be indicated without respelling, they 
