Re: New to me plant - silene procumbens
- Subject: Re: New to me plant - silene procumbens
- From: J* R* F*
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 21:23:28 -0400
ECPep@aol.com wrote:
> PS to Silene - it is a three syllable word which suprises all when some
> speaker comes up with the three syllable pronounciation. I and my once
> companion to meetings had a long drive argument over this word, he could not
> believe sigh-lee-nee, nor could I until we were proven wrong.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
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Here you come up on a hard rock re Latin pronunciation. All vowels are
prounounced individually (unless they're dipthongs...); they and their
associated consonant(s) form seperate syllables. The question of whether
they're long or short is a harder rock. The phonetic pronunciation you give
above seems unlikely to me, as it indicates both the 'e' are long.
I'd guess something like Sigh-li-neigh ot Sigh-lee-nuh . But the final
word rests with Stern in his Botanical Latin...
-jrf
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