In article , Sue & Bob Hobden
writes

"Kay wrote in message

Now try... Coelogyne :-)

That's the one my mother always called 'colly ogny'
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All right then it's correctly Koy-lo-gin-ee (as it's Latin)

But isn't coelacanth from the same root? And that's not Koylacanth.

I was always taught that oe was pronounced ee as in onomatopoeia

Though the vainy veedy veechy school would pronounce coeli as chayli


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Kay Easton

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