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Re: Correct plant names

I don't think it's a matter of different British and American pronunciation - in England we pronounce Clematis is three different ways!

Graham Rice

http://GrahamRice.com

Has anyone else noticed that British and Americans pronunciation of
scientific names is not the same? I was reading through a pronuncation
guide and got myself in a dither finding that I had been pronouncing
every single plant incorrectly until I got to "clematis." This I knew I
had previously looked up. I checked to see where the book was published
and it was English.

Fran



 > I think it's interesting that my recommendation of a British book
 as
 > the last word on correct plant names drew so few responses from
 the
 > (predominantly American) membership of this list.


Fran Gustman,  fgustman@juno.com
Editor, HortResources Newsletter www.hortresources.org
Editor, Wild Ones Journal,  www.for-wild.org
Boston, MA
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Boston, MA
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