In the garden centre where I worked, most customers requesting Weigela asked for "Why-jee-leer".
I think its logical pronunciation must be "Vi (not "vee") -ge-la" (hard g, obviously) - assuming it's German in origin; german "die" meaning "the" is pronounced "dee", whereas "deine" ("your") is pronounced "diner".
Not that I'm a pedant or anything...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Ppauper breaks everything Kitty. She's a right bl**dy nuisance....
Better than a 'list to the left' pansyface
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Heaven forfend Pansy!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If someone can change it to comic sans, we can vote for the Monster Raving Loonys instead
Edit: oh, it's gone back to normal now
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Kitty's fixed it !!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I diddun break it! If you'd all care to check the pagination it's in Italics too. It's clearly a wonky page and was not me!
You can't blame Wonky ... she's not been here today
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What a great discussion!
In the garden centre where I worked, most customers requesting Weigela asked for "Why-jee-leer".
I think its logical pronunciation must be "Vi (not "vee") -ge-la" (hard g, obviously) - assuming it's German in origin; german "die" meaning "the" is pronounced "dee", whereas "deine" ("your") is pronounced "diner".
Not that I'm a pedant or anything...
And although I'm clearly not a pedant... as a musician I'm totally in agreement with Hosta over the misuse of the word "crescendo".
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I remember working in a GC, straight out of school and doing my best to lean plant names.
I was mightily relieved to hear someone say " co tone ee aster" I'd rather assumed it was "Cotton Easter."
I remember a friend who worked for an opera company asking a colleague to check emails whilst my friend was at lunch
" Any sales over lunch?"
" Yes: 4 for Eugene One Gin."