Re: [SG] Pronunciation, please

In a message dated 6/16/99 10:37:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
gkorn@BLOOMNET.COM writes:

<< I've been saying the word "corydalis" as 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?

 Those seeds must have wings.  I have new plants coming up 100'-150' away
 from the location of the plants last year.

 Gail Korn >>

Hi Gail,

Are you growing the yellow one, C. lutea? Mine have seeded fantastically this
past year, but all in the same area.  I recently heard there is a better blue
avail than 'Blue Panda', but I dont remember the name.  I also have our
native one, C. sempervirens (I think).  Pretty bluish folliage with pink and
yellow flowers, but a bit straggly looking.

For pronunciation,
National Gardening Association Dict. of Hort says: kuh rihd' uh lilis.
My little "New Prounouncing Dict of Plant Names" says: ko-rid'a'lis

I also have another book that goes to some length talking about how it uses
correct or proper Latin pronunciation (or was it European vs American??) and
describes what the differences are, but for the life of me, I can't remember
what book it's in.  I didn't realize there were different ways to pronounce
Latin.  I find it frustrating when 2 different sources have 2 different ways
of saying it.  It doesn't fit my NEED to know which is RIGHT.  I s'pose I'll
live   :-)  Maybe it's nothing more than different variations in how we
pronounce words depending on what part of the country we live in?   Clyde,
Harry or others, what's that called???

Cindy Johnson
White Bear Lake, MN
zone 4a
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