On 2013-11-09 09:07:44 +0000, David Hill said:

On 08/11/2013 23:30, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-11-08 19:28:53 +0000, David Hill said:

On 08/11/2013 19:09, sacha wrote:
On 2013-11-08 18:53:06 +0000, David Hill said:

On 08/11/2013 18:38, sacha wrote:
On 2013-11-07 21:54:15 +0000, Bill Grey said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2013-11-07 17:48:39 +0000, Bill Grey said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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The wind is getting up quite a bit and the sky is very omnibus,
getting a darker grey by the minute. --
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk


You wait ages for one storm, then two come together :-)

What a lovely Malapropism.

Bill

It's a Ray-ism. ;-) He always says that and it's passed into the
family dictionary and is now officially official!

--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk


It makes for a more colourful life. I have one I just can't shake
off. A friend had a Sealyham Terrier, and as a joke I called it a
Selenium Terror, now I'm stuck with it.

Bill

;-) Sounds appropriate to me! My ex-husband (who was NOT into
gardening
at all) once pronounced Cotoneaster exactly as it is spelt. That
passed
into family folklore, too "shall we plant a cotton easter"?

That's the way my late mother always pronounced it

And one can see why - makes more sense to the eye. But that did not
detract from the considerable teasing that went on in our family, I'm
afraid. His parents were considerable gardeners and I was starting to
improve my game, so the poor man didn't stand a chance! Ray and I
differ on pronunciations of plant names but it's an amicable wrangle -
Clematis, Alyogyne, Chaenomeles lead to debate!

What about the Day Lily Hemerocallis (Hemero callis or Hemer ocallis)

Hemero carllis. ;-) The opportunities for debate are endless e.g. Nye
fophia or Niphoffia (Kniphofia) I knew someone who pronounced Dahlia as
'Darlia' but don't know anyone who pronounces Fuchsia as Fooksia.

Darlia seems to be the norm in the US
but the best was when I bought a tuber a few years ago, the girl on
the till called across to a collogue "How much are these Delilah's ?"

A king's samson! ;-)
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk