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How do you pronounce it ?

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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...'that climby thingy over there that looks tatty in winter and strangles all my nice roses...'?.
    I always had problems with word recognition.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2020
    Clem-a-tis
    Although actually it’s more like clemma-tiss

    Kalanchoe is said
    kallan-co-wee
    here 😀 

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





  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923
    edited March 2020
    Clem-a-tis
    one that really annoys me is honeysuckle:
    lon-is-sarah
    lon-cee-aira

    but I like Eddie Izzard in America
    "you say erb, I say herb, because the f&^$ing H in it!"
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Never heard lonicera pronounced either of those ways @treehugger80
    Mr Izzard is the king  :D
    I think one of the most mis-pronounced plants is cotoneaster-  cotton easter
    We'd better not start on rubus cockburnianus...

    We've slightly diverged from the OP's topic [as is often the case] sorry!
    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
    Clem-a-tis
    Best not to rub it
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    treehugger80 said:


    but I like Eddie Izzard in America
    "you say erb, I say herb, because the f&^$ing H in it!"
    But do you say ‘an herb’ or an erb , as in an historic or an hospital. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LilyandPoppy.LilyandPoppy. Posts: 26
    Clem-a-tis
    Cotoneaster

    C-ton-ista
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    C-ton- ee aster  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I say Cot O nee aster
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Clem-a-tis
    Lyn said:
    I say Cot O nee aster
    So do I 

    Ma said Cotton Easter ... until someone told her she was wrong ... she said she wasn't ... but after that she said Cot O nee aster 😂


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





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