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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhart_Fuchs
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PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
This guy, Fuchs
JoumanaKayrouz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
kitb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
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.
Ildar@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Yeah, like camomile, shamomile
ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
Looking forward to irritating my partner with this pronunciation.
eusousuperior@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Fook-see-ya is how it's pronounced in both Spanish and Portuguese
Lumidaub@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
Well, why not go all the way then and spell it "Fuchsie"?
Ildar@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Шамоммиле ти