Re: Pronounciation book
OK, Janet, you got me there. When I read "pinus" silently, I pronounce it
like the male private part. When I say it out loud, I use the modern
English long i, all for the sake of comprehensibility of course.
BTW, oenothera is Greek, so I put the stress on the antepenult: eNOthera
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Yang" <jyang1@home.com>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Pronounciation book
> What about Stokesia? In Latin, vowels determine syllables, and every
> syllable is pronounced:
> \ sto-KEE-zee-a \
> But then I learned that this plant was named after an English botanist
> named Jonathan Stokes, whose had one syllable. So I figure that
> \ STOK-see-a \
> is correct, and truer to the spirit of naming the plant after Mr.
> Stokes.
>
> Janet
>
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