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Re: plant name pronunciation
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To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
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Subject: Re: plant name pronunciation
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From: Stephen.Pushak at hcsd_hac.com
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 14:48:10 PDT
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In-Reply-To: <199507251939.PAA18064 at looney_actwin.com>; from "Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com" at Jul 25, 95 3:39 pm
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Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
> Regarding the pronunciation of "hygrophilla", my copy of _Dictionary of
> Plant Names_ by Allen J. Coombes says that the pronunciation is
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> hi-GRO-fi-la
Hmmm. I think I know what you're saying but GRO is still ambiguous because
we don't have the proper lexical symbols to denote the proper phonetic for
'o'. "grow", "grew", "groo" or "grau" are slightly less ambiguous but only
just. I guess "hi" is like "Hi (there)!"
- Steve