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Berberis thunbergii pronunciation
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I was looking for confirmation on how you pronounce berberis thunbergii. I presume it is as follows;
thun (as in thunder) berg (as in burger) ii (as in eye)
Please let me know if I'm right.
Richard
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Berg as in ice and the two i's separately- so it sounds a bit like ay - eye, if that makes sense
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
thun-berg-ee-ee as per my Amateur Gardening pocket reference book by Allen J Coombes
I say thun- berg -ee -eye
and
jack-man-ee-eye
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Excellent. Thanks for the help
Richard
Berberis is surely always thunbergii
Thunbergia gets you another genus. Something in the acanthaceae family.
Busy man that Thunberg
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thun like "toon", not thunder!
So now we're saying it's said toon-berg-ee-eye?
Richard
Thunberg will have pronounced it with a hard T and it's named for him.
and berg-ee-eye is how I've always pronounced it
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think however you pronounce names if you say with conviction people think you are correct
Says her who told neighbour eons ago that she had a cotton eater in her garden. 
it was a silent S 