Re: [GWL]: Idiotic questions

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Idiotic questions
• From: d*@olympus.net
• Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 10:08:31 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "tangly cottage gardening" <tangly@pacifier.com>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL]: Idiotic questions


> This will amuse you:
>
> I read an interesting thing on the Apline e-list:  The plant I have always
> called "Aubretia" is actually spelled "Aubrieta", but the misspelling has
> made it into some plant dictionaries as an alternative spelling.
>
> Skyler Walker
> Long Beach Peninsula
>

So THAT's it!
I had an employee, who fancied himself as quite
sophisticated/philosophical/"cultured"/educated who went round and round
with me for months on the "Au-bree-ET-i-a" name.  And he never missed an
opportunity to correct a customer in the mis-pronunciation of it.  I could
have choked the living #*&% out of this guy over this issue, petty as it may
seem.  When I tried to educate him by showing him the proper spelling of it
in a hort book, darned if it wasn't spelled exactly as you show above.
In 10 years, I'm sure that this issue will spring to mind as my most vivid
memory of him.
And I find NO amusement in it.
Diana

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