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 commonly
it's called
see-lo-gie-nee. :-)
Pronounced it wrongly for years until an Orchid nurseryman out Greenham
Common way (Thatched Lodge Orchids*) told be otherwise.
*sadly long gone.

A neighbouring gardener of ours was having some skin problems from
plants and was prescribed an ointment called 'Cicatrin' (Wellcome).
The ointment works very well, but how is its name pronounced?
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Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.