CLEMatiS, cleMAHtis, cleMAYtis

[ANNE V. GILBERT]

Jim:

>     You are in the software business now?

I wish.  That's just my antivirus program doing it's job.  It just happens
to have "my" intials.
>
>     My mother, who except during World War II spent all of her 84 years in
> Louisville, Kentucky, raised CLEMatis.  I have never heard either of the
> other pronunciations, but then I'm not a gardener.  My personal suspicion
is
> that there has arisen a phonetic confusion with toMAYtoe/toMAHtoe, or even
> with poTAYtoe (a suggestion at which even Dan would Quayle).

Interesting.  I wonder if anyone else on this list has any other ideas, or
maybe people are trying to "correct" clematis to the standard or
"toMAYto/toMAHto"?
Anne G


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