Lonicera nitida.

[David oakman]

I was felling a few trees for a tennant today and she asked me to look at her lonicera i called it lon-ith-era she called it lon-ick-era and she said she studied latin at oxford. How do you guys pronounce it?

[Tom D]

Lonisera ??

[David oakman]

Now that is what i used to call it lonisera:001_smile:

[Graham]

As far as I know no Oxford professors were around when latin was last used so I reckon we're all correct in pronunciation.

[Ben]

Lonisera ??

 

[Nimby]

Honeysuckle

[Simon Rotheram]

lon-is-era

 

Was it a lovely bush?

[Andy Collins]

As above, I was told botanical names because they generally arise from old language such as latin and Greek, can be pronounced in various ways so long as they are spelt correctly.

[Amelanchier]

Language evolves, pronouciation changes - its communication that matters. If you both understood each other, what's to be gained from moaning about the inflection of a consonant or two?

 

Honestly - and why appeal to righteousness by invoking Oxford??

[Giles Hill]

How do you guys pronounce it?

 

 

We have a Lonicera nitida hedge, so the name is typically preceded with a 'kin'.

Edited July 22, 2009 by Giles Hill