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Watching gardeners world and realise you’ve been saying everything wrong

NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
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Anyone else watch Gardeners world (or any other gardening program) and realise you’ve been pronouncing plants completely wrong.
I’m just watching this weeks GW and Hypercium was mentioned - I’ve been saying Hi-Per-Si-um. And they said Hi-peri-cum??

Monty was talking about Astible I can’t even remember how he pronounced it now but I’ve always called it “Ass-ti-bul”
Basically saying it how it’s spelt.

Ive always been bad at Pronouncing Scientific names, I did my degree in Animal conservation - I could never get the names right! 
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  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Notyalca said:
    Anyone else watch Gardeners world (or any other gardening program) and realise you’ve been pronouncing plants completely wrong.
    I’m just watching this weeks GW and Hypercium was mentioned - I’ve been saying Hi-Per-Si-um. And they said Hi-peri-cum??

    Monty was talking about Astible I can’t even remember how he pronounced it now but I’ve always called it “Ass-ti-bul”
    Basically saying it how it’s spelt.

    Ive always been bad at Pronouncing Scientific names, I did my degree in Animal conservation - I could never get the names right! 
    It's Hypericum and Astilbe, so pronounced as spelt in this case :) But I know what you mean ... Thuja for example ...

  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    I watched Carol Kleines garden cottage thingy programme and she pronounces things differently too. It doesn’t matter really.... I’m not too bad (in my head), but certain combinations of words I have trouble with and not just plant names, I can never say ras el hanout (a spice) but I can spell it lol!
  • NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
    Ahhhh so I have also been spelling some wrong 😂  don’t i look like a plonker! Dyslexia for you haha.  I’m sure I’ll know them all in good time 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Cotton.

    Easter.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Heucherha always gets me. So many ways of saying it. I saw the name before I ever heard it said, so in my head it sounds something like Hugh-CHEE-rah. I discover Taylors and Thorncroft say clem-A-tis with the stress on the second syllable.  It sounds so American. Like An-Ti war. Or a-LU-min-um. Most English words have a stress on the first syllable (with some rules of exception).
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Tomato tomayto I reckon! Spelling gets worse as I get older... and I’m still going to call my Acer ‘Bob’ as I can’t pronounce it! Maybe we need to have a Roger’s Gardenisaurus...
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    A; Acer :’Bob’...
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    edited May 2018
    Ah, DGM, your assumption that those words are pronounced as spelled would only ring true for someone with a classical education. AS-till-bull seems right if one's linguistic background is more Norse or Anglo-Saxon!
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I find I resort to "That pink thing..." and "The tall one with fluffy flowers..".
  • The_herpetologistThe_herpetologist Posts: 481
    Kotoni Aster
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