RE: New to me plant - silene procumbens
- Subject: RE: New to me plant - silene procumbens
- From: M* D*
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:55:31 -0700
Claire, interesting pronunciation of Silene! There are certainly
differences between the "left & right coasts" when it comes to how botanical
Latin is pronounced. My primary hort instructor is from Massachusetts and
so I learned it as she said it. It differs A LOT from the nursery industry
here and also different than our British friends. As one instructor put
it - don't worry about it, Latin is a dead language and there is no one
alive who knows for sure how any of it should be pronounced! I find that
somehow comforting. :)
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
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Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:19 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: New to me plant - silene procumbens
Silene and Lychnis are mixed up taxonomically so it may have been around
before with another name. Either way, report on it, Susan, I know we will
see it next year.
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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