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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Always clematis with the emphasis on the 'clem' for me. I don't like the 'a' emphasis but I know many people do.
    An 'ay' sound is just wrong - too American [like they way they prounce tomato]
    Apologies Blue Onion!
    Remember that many names are the way they are because they're named after the people who discovered them -  Douglassi , Banksii, Wilsonii, Darwinii, Burkwoodii etc.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Collins does one and Oxford probably does one too
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2018
    B3 said:
    Collins does one and Oxford probably does one too
    I was just going to say that  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I never beat you to the punch with the plants,though!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Blue Onion said:
     Ko-tony-aster?
    <nods>
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054

    Fire said:
    Zea! That's the shortest I can think of.

    Olea
    Rosa

    Ah, but what about a species as well? I confess I've never heard of Zea before! Will have to look it up now ...
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    DampGardenMan said:

    Fire said:
    Zea! That's the shortest I can think of.

    Olea
    Rosa

    Ah, but what about a species as well? I confess I've never heard of Zea before! Will have to look it up now ...
    Aha, Zea mays takes the prize (so far!). Seven letters.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Fairygirl,I know the plants are named after people, and honour that, but Burkwoodii still sounds... contrived.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Fire said:
    Fairygirl,I know the plants are named after people, and honour that, but Burkwoodii still sounds... contrived.
    At least it doesn't trigger an ear worm. Unlike omphaloides. I shall be singing the oompa loompa song for days now......
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Americans have no difficulty with sodium, tellurium, rutherfordium or any of the dozens of elements that end in -ium, so why can't they say aluminium?
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