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andrewsinclair t1_jda5jh4 wrote

Same way you would pronounce Carl Linnaeus's surname...

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dyqik t1_jdh7o2j wrote

Ah, so it's von Linné St.

[fɔn lɪˈneː]

Linnaeus is the Latin form of his Swedish surname, used because he wrote his scientific work in Latin. He was born Carl Linné, and later ennobled to add the von.

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