[pbs] Kniphofia in South Africa
David Ehrlich
idavide at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 15 15:27:48 EST 2008
Max --
I think your problem is with spelling. If you spell it correctly, you will pronounce it correctly. But if you think it is a color rather than a genus, you will spell it as well as pronounce it incorrectly. Unless you are a biologist: then you will pronounce it fyooksia, being used to that pronunciation for the stain fuchsin.
From: Max Withers
I cannot resist adding, pace everyone's spam filters, that a Fuschia
truly memorial of Leonhard Fuchs would have to be pronounced FUCK-sia.
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