Cotton-Easter… a Easter plant - half white fuzz and half colored egg plant…that was a tricky one.
Ka-ton-ne-aster….
Amaryllidaceae … amary-llida-ceae …Am-a-ryl-lis..Am-ar-yll-is…
friend with Boston accent.. Am-ha-rill-us .
Chionanthus…ka-no-nan-thus ..this one was a tongue twister with or without the diction breakdown .
Heuchera …hoo-ker-uh-a… Like always asking for a smoking bar no wait it's a plant.
Today all the plant pics and spelling are at the touch of a Computer. Ya all remember the struggling to spell plants on tests.
Linguistics is tricky, in many cases many languages have morphed thru the years historically.