Re: [SG] Pronunciation, please
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Pronunciation, please
- From: C* C* <C*@AOL.COM>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:13:45 EDT
In a message dated 6/16/1999 10:37:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
gkorn@BLOOMNET.COM writes:
<< KOR-e-DAL-is. At a plant seminar
recently, one of the other speakers pronounced it koh-RID-a-lis. Does
anyone know the preferred pronunciation?
>>
It really does not make much of a difference----but the "correct"
pronunciation is koh -Rid- ah- lis.
Get this ---what about Hosta hypoleuca. Everyone says hi- po-loo-ka. No, it
is hi-po-
LOY-cah. Also, what about, hippeasrtrum?(=hei-PEA-ah-strum)