Re: Pronounciation book
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- Subject: Re: Pronounciation book
- From: H* B*
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:53:10 +1100
Hi Joanie
I take the occasioonal bus trip of ladies and gents around gardens far from
our hoome town and I can tell you that most are amazed about how much I
know!!!! well i make it up!!! but on my last trip i had someone who knew
every cotton picken thin. drove not only me but everyone else crazy too.
so who cares if you to have easter cotton good for you. i had cotton
easter for a long time before i found out myself. one thing i will tell
you thou. The more you learn about plants and gardening the more you find
out you don't know.
happy diggin
Hazel
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> From: Marilyn Dube <maridube@teleport.com>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: RE: Pronounciation book
> Date: Thursday, 4 January 2001 4:48
>
> Joanie,
> Don't fret about pronouncing botanical names. Some are SUCH tongue
> twisters! I said Cotton-Easter for a long time before I figured out what
> ko-tawnee-aster was! (Bet everybody on this list did at one time or
> another).
> I have never heard Helleborus pronounced as Hell-EBB-or-us. Here where I
> live its HELL-a-bor-us. But, the thing that has become more obvious to
me
> as I connect with gardeners from around the US and Britain is - it
depends
> on where you live how things are pronounced. I found the same to be true
> when pronouncing medical Latin terms/names.
> When I was taking plant ID classes, the instructor never insisted the
> students pronounce botanical names the same way that she did. Her theory
> was that Latin is a "dead" language and no one living actually knows how
it
> should be pronounced, we are all just guessing! So....your guess is as
good
> as mine :).
> Marilyn Dube'
> Natural Designs Nursery
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com]
On
> Behalf Of Jeaa1224@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:40 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Pronounciation book
>
> Speaking of pronounciations, how does everyone say Helleborus? Until
> recently, I thought it was hell-a-bor'-is...now I find it's
hell-eb'-orus.
> True?
>
> Joanie (who, as a fledgling gardener, said cotton easter instead of
> ca-ton'-ee-aster)
>
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