Monday, November 8, 2010

Anemonemeonomemneoem...?

Last week when we were preparing for the test, someone brought up the story of Venus and Adonis. As the myth goes (simplified) Venus took the blood from Adonis and turned it into an Anemone flower. Immediately after the question was posed three or four people where trying to get their two cents in about how to pronounce the word. In class people argued for several minutes over which pronunciation was more correct. To this day I am not sure how to say the word, I will probably never know. This reminded me of a movie I had seen where a certain character couldn't figure out the pronunciation of a similar word. Watch this and you will understand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ1KDf3O-qU.
Now the word the that Nemo was trying to say was Sea Anemone, which is more of a jellyfish than a flower even though it is classified as a flower. Although they are describing different plants/animals the word still gives man and animal alike a hard time with pronunciation.

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