Those are not the Latin names for those elements.

Boron is borium or boracium and silicon is silicium. Some of the other names such as tin and bismuth are not derived from Latin, thus have a different naming convention.

I was so terribly hopeless in maths at school that I took six years of Latin instead...

 

 

 

We pronounce manual as STAN-durd

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We poor Americans can't win either way. If we try to say jag-u-ar or jag, it still sounds pretentious.

So we're stuck with Jag-wahr

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Also abbreviated "Stick", which is faster and easier.

 

What about an owner's manual?

Any way I say Jag-you-are because it was beaten into me as a child, but when I say that to a 'merican I normally just get a blank stare, to be fair Jaguar is not the only word this happens with.

 

I'm still trying not to gag every time I hear 'voila' written and pronounced as 'walla' ;0

 

Okay then, how about "viola"? ..... Vee-o-lah

 

I live in New Yawk, USA. I say MAN-u-all. The ca-R ?? It's just a JAG

 

How about croissant, crescent, quassant all are delicious buttery french pastries.

 

Then there is a village in Maine, Calais, on the border with Canada. The tourist try their hardest to remember their High School French to tryto pronounce it correctly. The locals pronounce it Cal-LUS !!

 

You think thats bad. What about "Porsche" Most usually pronounced Porsche Ah. My dad told me years ago, he had a German instructor at a trade school, in Chicago who said the Mans name was Dr. Ferdinand Porsche! No Ah was attached. Then in the 80's along came the Movie "Risky Business" with Tom Cruise, and it became cool, to say Porsche Ah. I believe it to be an insult to the man, and his car.

Just my thoughts.

Jack

 

Directly from Porsche HQ:

 

Proper pronounciation is critical, as many words sound similar but have different meanings. For example, burro and burrow. A burro is an animal - a donkey. And a burrow is a trench or other excavation in the ground made be a mole or similar animal.

So, if you don't pronounce burro and burrow properly (burro = boo-roh and burrow = buh-roh), you can't tell the difference between your *** and a hole in the ground! :

 

On the autobahnen, it's Jag-wehr...

 

Dad, is that you?

 

Hahaha! Not guilty.

 

That's what they all say!

Jack

 

If there were any native Latin speakers, they would all be on the Maserati or Ferrari forums . . . or chariot forums.