As someone used to also speaking some Afrikaans which has a Dutch/Germanic type of ancestry, I suspect that the pronunciation of fuchsia would more likely be "Fooghsia" with the "gh" pronounced the same way as the "ch" in the Scottish loch (a sound as in clearing ones throat)! ----- Original Message ----- From: David Ehrlich To: Pacific Bulb Society Sent: 15 12, 2008 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Kniphofia in South Africa Max -- I think your problem is with spelling. If you spell it correctly, you will pronounce it correctly. But if you think it is a color rather than a genus, you will spell it as well as pronounce it incorrectly. Unless you are a biologist: then you will pronounce it fyooksia, being used to that pronunciation for the stain fuchsin. From: Max Withers I cannot resist adding, pace everyone's spam filters, that a Fuschia truly memorial of Leonhard Fuchs would have to be pronounced FUCK-sia. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/