pbs Digest, Vol 14, Issue 42
Antennaria@aol.com (Fri, 02 Apr 2004 21:19:35 PST)

In a message dated 3/30/04 10:29:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, Jim McKenney
wrote:
It's not my life goal to "correct" clueless people who say ny-fof'-ee-ah or
el-scholtz'-ee-ah or ah-jer-ray'-tum.

I've always been the rare individual, such as in a class while in grade
school, who'd say to a teacher "no, I don't know what you mean", at risk of
everyone ridiculing me for admitting to not knowing the answer to the question. Two
of the three examples you cite coincide closely with the way I'd say the genus
name. The insinuation is, the phonetic examples you site illustrates "clueless
blunders". If you can bear it, please supply the elucidating fact, how
should these three genera be sounded?

Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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