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in reply to a message by Pie
Fuchs is the german word for "fox" which was the first thing I thought of.
The more I look at it, the more I think that Fuchsia is spelled really strangely - it looks more like "fuk-see-yuh" or "fuch-see-yuh" or something, which is definitely something to avoid!
The more I look at it, the more I think that Fuchsia is spelled really strangely - it looks more like "fuk-see-yuh" or "fuch-see-yuh" or something, which is definitely something to avoid!
This message was edited 7/8/2011, 8:55 AM
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so Fuchsia and Foxglove?
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You're not far off-- the plant the Fuchsia was actually named for German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. If you hang out with botanists and other plant scientists, they still call it a FOOKS-ee-a (I dated an ethnobotanist-- it used to kind of drive me crazy)
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LOL, now I'm trying to pronounce it in a German way and it's coming out Welsh and sounding very very silly.
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