I usually pronounce it 'red hot poker' at least until the other person uses the latin and I then copy them. ( yes I am a wuss), Mind you, I have had some very odd discussions about Chaenomeles, Eschscholzia and Clematis. (coming from Norfolk, Clematis doesn't have a 'T' in it however you pronounce it) and just bear in mind that Buddleja (buddleia ?) was named in honour of Adam Buddle.
Oh, I admit it, I mispronounce dahlia too and I know I'm doing it. You're all correct, as long as we enjoy growing them, it doesn't matter and I love both dahlias and red hot pokers too. I grew the pokers from seed a few years back and have got all sorts of colour mixes that I've never seen in the garden.
As Knip was German he would definitely have pronounced it with a hard 'c' as in cat, so that is what I do K-nip-hof-i-a.
But I'm not consistent. There's no real reason not to say Dah- rather than Day-lia, except time honoured usage, but I could foresee possible problems using the German pronunciation for Fuchs-ia. Fuchs means fox and is pronounced roughly the same way... fyooshia is safer!
And in my Latin class we were taught that 'c' was always hard; I remember having to decline acer, acris, acre as ack-air,ack-riss, ack-ray, but no-one would understand me if I started calling maples Ackair, would they?
Mind you, I was also taught that you never begin sentences with a conjunction. But now I'm too old to care!
It's what people know about how to grow them that's important, not how to pronounce them - as well as being generous enough to share their knowledge kindly and without intimidating others.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Pdoc I don't care who said it, I'm enjoying the pronunciation aspect of the thread. I didn't even watch GW.
I usually pronounce it 'red hot poker' at least until the other person uses the latin and I then copy them. ( yes I am a wuss), Mind you, I have had some very odd discussions about Chaenomeles, Eschscholzia and Clematis. (coming from Norfolk, Clematis doesn't have a 'T' in it however you pronounce it) and just bear in mind that Buddleja (buddleia ?) was named in honour of Adam Buddle.
As long as the scanner at the till can read the bar code, who cares!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As long as you know what your saying who cares what others think. They can always get the dictionary out to spell check
LET'S TALK ABOUT SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT LIKE WHY EVERYONE MISPRONOUNCES DAHLIA. AND THEY JUST DON'T CARE! ! !
Oh, I admit it, I mispronounce dahlia too and I know I'm doing it. You're all correct, as long as we enjoy growing them, it doesn't matter and I love both dahlias and red hot pokers too. I grew the pokers from seed a few years back and have got all sorts of colour mixes that I've never seen in the garden.
As Knip was German he would definitely have pronounced it with a hard 'c' as in cat, so that is what I do K-nip-hof-i-a.
But I'm not consistent. There's no real reason not to say Dah- rather than Day-lia, except time honoured usage, but I could foresee possible problems using the German pronunciation for Fuchs-ia. Fuchs means fox and is pronounced roughly the same way... fyooshia is safer!
And in my Latin class we were taught that 'c' was always hard; I remember having to decline acer, acris, acre as ack-air,ack-riss, ack-ray, but no-one would understand me if I started calling maples Ackair, would they?
Mind you, I was also taught that you never begin sentences with a conjunction. But now I'm too old to care!
It's what people know about how to grow them that's important, not how to pronounce them - as well as being generous enough to share their knowledge kindly and without intimidating others.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.