"Nick Maclaren" wrote after

"Bob Hobden" Wrote:
|
| Thanks Paul, I bought a book many years ago to help with the
pronunciation
| of plant names after I came across an orchid called " Coelogyne
cristata"
| and realised I hadn't a hope of making a reasonable stab at it. (
correctly
| koy-LO-gin-ee but commonly see-LO-gie-nee KRIS-tah-ta)
|
| Problem then is, do you pronounce it the correct Latin way, with "C"
being
| hard, or use the commonly accepted way with a soft "C"? :-)
|
| Still, if everyone understands what you are on about there isn't a
problem.

Try Passiflora xiikzodz. I kid you not.

At a guess Pa-si-flo-ra zeek-zods ?

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London