Re: OT: perennials in Dutch
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Bill Shear wrote:
>
> By the way, does anyone have an explanation why the variegated phlox
> variety "Darwin's Choice" now appears in nearly all Dutch-based catalogs as
> "Darwin's Joyce?"
Miss-pronunciation/language barriers? Sort of a foreign language homonyn mistake?
Pennsylvania Dutch and others mispronounce "just" as "chust" so I could
see how "Choice" heard in Dutch could be spelled "Joyce" as the English equivlent
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