How do you pronounce the word 'Heuchera'?
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Comments (4)Hi Laura, I wouldn't worry about this much (I don't know of any list anywhere either). Do the best you can learning the names & I wouldn't worry about their pronunciation. Speaking personally (& I've belonged to several plant societies) among others of us, there are often variations in pronunciation. Like me, many times it's cause one's only SEEN or READ the word, never heard it SPOKEN. For myself, if someone is using the Latin name (correctly) I almost don't care how they pronounce the word(s). With time & frequent use you'll get to learn what the more commonly heard pronunciations are & get used to them....See MoreHow Do You Pronounce 'Sagae'?
Comments (28)"I had a tendancy to pronounce it as if it were latin as mentioned above, albeit in my head as I don't have any one to discuss hostas with verbally" LOL Boy oh boy, Denis, me either, for the most part... : ( My neighbor, yes, but he says "Krossa Wriggle" and "Wriggle Stannard" so I don't freaking know... Don B....See MoreSo,,,how do YOU pronounce Liebherr?
Comments (22)Actually there is a continuum from p to b with the voicing cutting out at different places in the vocalization depending on the accent, and aspiration playing a part in the perception of the sound as well. Alex, I don't know what is "right", but German does cut the voicing of voiced stops at the ends of words. I'm not so sure about internal sound, but compare Liebherr with Liebchen and Liebling on the same site (Forvo) and it does seem that there's much more of a "b" sound if it's followed by voicing, rather than voiceless. Listen closely to what you're actually hearing and render it in IPA. In the sound clip you provided there's more voicing carrying through from the vowel into the "b" than you'd hear in an English "p", but it has more of a "p" sound to my American ears than it does a "b" sound. That is, the voicing cuts out before the "b" ends and the "h" starts. It does seem more voiced than the American "leap" or the "pp" in Firmengruppe, however. (BTW, we say "Shee-luh" for Shiela.)...See MoreHow do you pronounce "peony"?
Comments (13)Sue, I assume you're talking about a fig tree. There are some pretty cold-hardy varieties available; in addition to Hardy Chicago, there's Brown Turkey. The unnamed variety in my zone 7 yard (grown from a cutting from a friend's grandfather's tree that came across the ocean with him) did fine until our last two colder-than-usual winters. It's coming back from the roots, but probably won't have time to produce a crop this year. It might have been fine if I'd wrapped it, but I'm not one to coddle my plants. For sheer lushness, it's hard to beat a peony. A grower in our state has a lovely site: www.peonysenvy.com There's also a lot of cultural information there. I've visited her farm in the woods of north Jersey and it was just delightful....See Moremarquest
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