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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David FG" data-source="post: 1722983" data-attributes="member: 15636">Ah, but a lot of the problems come from not knowing how to pronounce names that have come from other languages - 'Audouin's' and 'jacana' for example.  The question is, do we Anglicize them completely, or pronounce them as they are in their native languages, or something in between?Though differences in pronunciation of what are certainly English words has been a source of 'interest' (to put it mildly) for a long time.As George Bernard Shaw once said:  'It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.'</blockquote>