The BBC have a department who advise on correct pronunciation but on newsnight last night presenter Allegra Stratton who used to be a producer on the BBC foreign desk was overheard having to be coached by Leanne Wood on the correct pronunciation of plaid cymru.
Mr. T said if you pronounce a plant name with enough confidence and often enough people will adopt your pronunciation I had a cotton eater (not Easter like Ma Dove) for years. Not incorrectly said just I can't read
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I think it's just that he loves plants and gardening, and that can be so infectious.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Kniphofia......didn't he used to sing & play geetah in Dire Straits?
That is right Dove. Caught-on-e-astor /Cotton Easter is one of those with several correct pronunciations
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The BBC have a department who advise on correct pronunciation but on newsnight last night presenter Allegra Stratton who used to be a producer on the BBC foreign desk was overheard having to be coached by Leanne Wood on the correct pronunciation of plaid cymru.
Luckily it doesn't matter to the plant- they have more important things to worry about....
I have a Dictionary of Plant Names and the pronunciation in there is nee-fof-ee-a
However our family has always pronounced it K-noff-ee-a (the K is as it sounds in 'cat').
I think it really is a case of how you first heard it,nothing after sounds quite right!!
Mr. T said if you pronounce a plant name with enough confidence and often enough people will adopt your pronunciation
I had a cotton eater (not Easter like Ma Dove) for years. Not incorrectly said just I can't read 
My mum always love Gypsophilia! didnt matter how many times I said there was no 'I' at the end, she had to say it.
I must say that I would have said nifofia I always thought p and h was said as f.
My pronunciation book says:
nee-fof-ee a
Amateur gardening Pocket reference dictionary of plant names.
I don't have tomatoes and potatoes, I have toms & spuds and I'm not American
I digress, a friend told me if you use spell check on pieris (I'm always inclined to put double R and look at the options you get a big
I am with you Nut.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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