Hi Dave and Trish and all, Chris (goldfinch4) sent me this link last week to let me know which pronunciation is correct...I was thrilled to learn that I didn't have to relearn how to say it! Both ways are correct
Great podcast, thanks guys!
http://www.howjsay.com/index.p...

Yes, what a coincidence that we had just discussed that Greg!

The question has been bothering me since I recorded the interview with Toby a couple weeks ago! I'm glad to know that we're both right!

Chris I know funny!
Dave exactly! Isn't that a rare thing!

Love those talking dictionary sites, something like that would be good for pronouncing the genus in our database!

I started doing that many, many years ago with PlantFiles but never really finished it, so I think I took it down.

I could make an upload place where you could record yourself saying genus names and uploading them. But if I made the functionality, how many people would actually do it? I wouldn't want to build such a function in unless I knew there were a few people who really wanted to contribute by posting recordings.

I would totally do that, if I knew that I was pronouncing the words correctly...since I'd always said "semperveevum" and just assumed that was correct, and then you and Trish were saying "sempervievum" and sounding "official" I totally thought I had to begin changing how I said the plant name!
If there was a link to a talking dictionary website then those of us willing to record names would know the "standard" pronunciation.
I very much liked on DG where they have the pronunciation written out, I found that very helpful! I like feeling that I'm pronouncing a word correctly!