[Taxacom] Asterales

[Jim Croft]

Once came across a pronounciation of the fern genus Doodia as
Doh-ode-ee-ah. Sounded quite authoritative and erudidte. But the guy's
name was Samuel Doody, I suspect as in 'howdy-doody'.  Lowbrow but
accurate?

jim

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Bob Mesibov <mesibov at southcom.com.au> wrote:
> "And there's Buddleia, named after the Rev. Buddle."
>
> Genuinely true, whereas Olearia/O'Leary is a joke. In English we usually pronounce oh-lee-AIR-ee-ah, and for fun 'oh-LEER-ee-ah, after O'Leary'...
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