Can I go slightly off at a tangent with "buddleja" ? For decades, centuries perhaps we were all happy with "buddleia" ( after the Rev Buddle) until someone decided that the original spelling " looked more like a J than an I" really?? How big was the survey to gain any consensus? I'm sticking with "buddleia".
"The botanic name has been the source of some confusion. By modern practice of botanical Latin, the spelling of a generic name made from 'Buddle' would be Buddleia, but Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum of 1753 and 1754 spelled it Buddleja, with the long i between two vowels, common in early modern orthography. The pronunciation of the long i in Buddleja as j is a common modern error. The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature has gradually changed to incorporate stricter rules about orthographic variants, and as of the 2006 edition requires (article 60, particularly 60.5) that Linnaeus' spelling should be followed in this case."
Well marra, I divent all ares know how to pronounce oricultural words but if yer Cumbriam accent in strong it probably won't matter as nobody will understand anything you say. But it'll be reet.
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I'm sticking with "buddleia".
"The botanic name has been the source of some confusion. By modern practice of botanical Latin, the spelling of a generic name made from 'Buddle' would be Buddleia, but Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum of 1753 and 1754 spelled it Buddleja, with the long i between two vowels, common in early modern orthography. The pronunciation of the long i in Buddleja as j is a common modern error. The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature has gradually changed to incorporate stricter rules about orthographic variants, and as of the 2006 edition requires (article 60, particularly 60.5) that Linnaeus' spelling should be followed in this case."
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http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/puns/puns.html
I like the rude ones listed at the bottom.