I’ve said Clem A tis and Clem Ay tis too many times and now I can’t remember what I used to say. I think I used to be a “Ay” but I heard it being called Clem A tis and switched to that assuming I was saying it wrong.
I much prefer the sound of Clem Ay tis. But I’ve got the habit Of calling it The other way now
There's a superbum in the persicaria family too. Unless you have a classical education it's all too easy to mispronounce botanical names but no excuses for mis-reading them as Monty confessed when he realised he's been pronouncing Kniphofia wrong for years.
Is that Cock as in the drink pronounced Coa like coat Dove?
Clem-ay-tis is all wrong for me tho.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Sorry Obs, I went from Rubus cockburnianus to cock chafers (a riotous thread from a few weeks ago). I will learn, at some point, to stop making unexplained leaps. But there is the chay-fing / chaf-fing question.
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Ooer. That's not how I say it!
I much prefer the sound of Clem Ay tis. But I’ve got the habit Of calling it The other way now
I have always said clema-tis, just to confuse matters.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There's a superbum in the persicaria family too. Unless you have a classical education it's all too easy to mispronounce botanical names but no excuses for mis-reading them as Monty confessed when he realised he's been pronouncing Kniphofia wrong for years.
Is that Cock as in the drink pronounced Coa like coat Dove?
Clem-ay-tis is all wrong for me tho.