TIL that the plant and color “fuschia” is actually spelled “fuchsia,” (pronounced fook-see-ya, not fyoo-shah) and named after a German botanist named Leonhart Fuchs.
TIL that the plant and color “fuschia” is actually spelled “fuchsia,” (pronounced fook-see-ya, not fyoo-shah) and named after a German botanist named Leonhart Fuchs.
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It may be spelled fuchsia but it is still pronounced fyoo-sha in English. Maybe once upon a time that would have been a mispronunciation but nowadays it's standard English.
Yeah, like camomile, shamomile
Looking forward to irritating my partner with this pronunciation.
Fook-see-ya is how it's pronounced in both Spanish and Portuguese
Шамоммиле ти
Well, why not go all the way then and spell it "Fuchsie"?
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