Pronunciation

[Firecat]

I hope someone can help with this one.
I have a Mclna. Pagan Love song "chocolate thunder" that I just picked up from Home Depot. Very nice Orchid.. My question is, How do you Pronunce Maclellanara ? Can anyone type in Phonetic spelling or close to it , enough so I can say the word.
Also is there a site to go to that list all the types of orchids and how to pronounce them. I know some of them, but there is so many!!!!
Thanks for all your help ...Milt

[Orchidflowerchild]

THese intergenerics ending in -ara are based on someone's name and then -ara is added. In this case, Maclellan-ara. Just pronounce as you would the name, then add -ara (ah-rah). For other things, such as Potinara (Potin -ara), Fredclarckeara (Fred Clarke -ara), you just have to break the ara off and detemine how you would pronounce the name.

-Cj

[Firecat]

Thanks for the Info Orchidflowerchild, I new someone would be able to tell me something.
Now, that is somethig I can add to my knowledge base. I still am looking for a URL> that has some of them listed. I found this one, Pronounce , But I could use some more. If you know of another one then let me know. Thanks again for al your help..Milt

[kmarch]

Firecat, Exercise a little care when using that pronunciation guide. Actually just forget it. It's full of mistakes. I stopped counting at 13 mistakes. Many of the suggested pronounciations don't even have the correct number of syllables. Here are just a few examples:

Odontioda h-dont-ON-ee-ah
The pronunciation indicates there are 2 "N" sounds when the spelling indicates only one "N" sound and it indicates only 1 "D" when there should be 2. Worse yet the pronunciation indicates the second (non-existent) "N" sound is the accented syllable. The correct pronunciation is oh-dont-ee-OH-dah

And another particularly bad goof-up:
Stanhopea: stan-hope-ear
Stanhopea is 4 syllables, not 3 (stan-HOPE-ee-ah) and Stanhopea does not end with an "R".

EEEK! and this one:
Pterostylis: pet-ro-sty-lis
PET!?!?!?! No, no, no. It's TER-o-styl-us. The consonant cluster "Pt" is pronounced as a "T" not as "PET". Ugh....

It gets better! Here's one they misspelled first then mispronounced according to the way they misspelled it:
Pleurotharlis: plu-ro-thar-lis. There's only one "R" in Pleurothalis and it's not plu-ro, similar to Pluto, it's pler-oh.

I think I've made my point. Ugh...I recommend getting a good orchid encyclopedia like Alec Pridgeon's. It will give you pronunciations you can rely on. Don't use online one linked to above...please?

[Firecat]

Wow, Thank you Kmarch, I was trying to memorize them and I guess I have to start over.
Just as well, I certainly don't want to sound Dumb if I start talking to the pros.
I am having such a good time with my Orchids. I look at them every day, tend to their needs as I see fit, and I guess they expect it by now. LOL. Hope you have a great day... MIlt