The Biologist's Handbook of Pronunciations

It is a complaint all too common among those who are beginning the study of the biological sciences that they can make little satisfactory progress in the pronunciation of the numerous scientific names and terms they must use. Their path is made thorny by the fact that advanced students and even many teachers of scientific studies, to whom they look for guidance, mispronounce, often atrociously, many of the terms. Perhaps all, both students and teachers, would gladly improve their...
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It is a complaint all too common among those who are beginning the study of the biological sciences that they can make little satisfactory progress in the pronunciation of the numerous scientific names and terms they must use. Their path is made thorny by the fact that advanced students and even many teachers of scientific studies, to whom they look for guidance, mispronounce, often atrociously, many of the terms. Perhaps all, both students and teachers, would gladly improve their pronunciation if they could find ready at hand some small but adequate book of reference.In response to the demand of these multitudes, I have prepared, with some misgivings and hesitation, this handy pronouncing guide. It includes not only a host of the most commonly used and often mispronounced technical terms, but also the better known generic names of plants and animals and numerous Latin adjectives and adjectival compounds used as specific or trivial names. As a special aid to learning, with each specific name is given its original Greek or Latin meaning or English...