CLEMatiS, cleMAHtis, cleMAYtis ...

[James Smith]

Yeh, that's what I meant!


--- Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
wrote:
> Isn't there a fourth pronunciation as well?  Around
> here we say 'clemAEtis'
> (AE as in 'cat').
>
> At 04:29 PM 4/6/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >I would guess that the second and third
> pronunciations you list are spelling
> >pronunciations brought into being by non-gardeners
> who had never heard it
> >pronounced.   The same thing happened with the word
> 'gratis'   which was
> >historically GRAY tis, but is mostly GRAT is, now,
> or for those who love
> >their Latin--GRAH tis.
> >
> >Dale Coye
> >The College of NJ
>
>
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