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How do you pronounce it ?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Clem-a-tis
    You may need to get to the root of the problem
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Quite!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • PurpleRosePurpleRose Posts: 538
    Cle-ma(y)-tis
    I have hy-drain-ja problems too 🤣🤣🤣
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited March 2020
    I don't say either. I say clema tis. More emphasis on the E rather than the A. 
    But I'm weird.
    pansyface said:
    The root of the problem would be the Greek word “klema” meaning “vine branch”. So it would logically be clem-a-tis.🙂
    But maybe I'm right??
    Devon.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I say clem-atis, stress on the clem, but if you say it different, that's OK by me. 

    Hydrangea, highdrainja, I've never heard anything different.  I'm intrigued now to know how else you'd pronounce it.  Someone please enlighten me.

    Bergenia, I say berjeenia, others say it with a hard g.

    Chaenomeles, I say keenomelees, stress on the second syllable.  Some say ch as in cheese.

    Kalanchoe, anyone?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I say it more like Ki no mel ees. 
    Ka lan show, ( I know it's wrong, but it's not something I come across often )
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Clem-a-tis
    Hy dran gia. short 'a ' sound
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    #You say clem-ah-tis, and I say clem-aytis...

    I say it with the emphasis on the 'clem' - clem-atis

    Clem- aytis always sounds too close to an STD for my liking...

    It's the way Chris Beardshaw pronounces Hemerocallis that always throws me -
    Hema -rockalis  
    What's that about?  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fairygirl said:

    It's the way Chris Beardshaw pronounces Hemerocallis that always throws me -
    Hema -rockalis  
    What's that about?  :D
    With you on that 
    Devon.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    edited March 2020
    Clem-a-tis
    The standard pronunciation of clematis is considered to be /ˈklɛmətɪs/.
    Other pronunciations include /kləˈmætɪs/ and, particularly in the UK, /kləˈmeɪtɪs/

    Source Wikipedia
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