Re: [SG] dry shade---Bergenia
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] dry shade---Bergenia
- From: C* C* <C*@AOL.COM>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:06:26 EST
In a message dated 2/25/1999 8:10:25 PM Central Standard Time,
diehlr@INDIANA.EDU writes:
<< Instead of worrying about how to pronounce the Latin name, let's all go to
the charming and easily pronounced common name--Pigsqueak. >>
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Heavens no! The most fun is pronouncing the names---not how to grow them. <BG>
Coombes, DICTIONARY of PLANT NAMES (Timber Press 1993, 7th Ed.) gives this
pronunciation: ber-gen[accented]-ee-a. {But he also gives the pronunciation of
liriope as : lee-ree[accented]-o-pay.}
Maybe we should go back to Kipling:" There are one and twenty ways to make a
tribal lay---and every single one of them is right."
Clyde Crockett z5 Indianapolis IN <ccredux@aol.com>
