I'll put in 3 votes for Kle-MAT-is as well--from CO, UT, and MN.
I
read the scientific names mostly, rather than say them or hear them said, so I am regularly amused when I do find out how bad my mispronunciations are.
Worse than that even, we've taken it to a whole new low by purposefully calling plants something kinda close but really very wrong, just for fun.
As I once confessed here
http://garden.org/thread/view_... in
