Is Anyone Else Excited For This?!

[lizasaur]

http://www.exoticaplants.com.au/

 

[carnivoure12]

What exactly on the website are you referring too?

 

[Chris_Himself]

N. Merilliana x Lowii I think?

Now is it LOW-eye, or LOW-wee-eye? I thought it was the 2nd one, Peter corrected me and said it was the first one.

The N. Lowii x Vent looks very very promising. Now if only I can have that whole having money thing figured out...

 

[lizasaur]

Chris is right- the new hybrid, yes.

 

[carnivoure12]

Hmm... Stewart Mcpherson says Low-wee-eye, so does Rob Cantley. Mnay people say the seond one is the right one, or whats the point of the second i, if not?

 

[Chris_Himself]

Maybe so it's not Low-wee.

Either way, I could not afford that shizzle in a million years, but dang they are nice plants.

 

[natevincent]

Im getting one in about 10 days!

 

[mobile]

Now is it LOW-eye, or LOW-wee-eye? I thought it was the 2nd one, Peter corrected me and said it was the first one.

I believe that it is LOW-ee-eye (ˈloʊ.i.aɪ/)

 

[Chris_Himself]

Lol. Chris: 1, Peter: 0. But then again, his nursery, he can call them whatever he wants. He's the boss. He could call it a redwood for all it matters.

I saw N x Peter D Amato at the nursery, although it's not making the biggest pitchers this year due to weather fluctuations in the northern part of my state this year, it's still a very impressive plant from what I get in pictures.

 

[Dexenthes]

Man.... I've been saying Lowee for the majority of my life.....

 

[petmantis]

I thought the 2nd I was a long vowel, which would make it LOW -*long E* - *long I*. Same applies to D. burmanii, N. copelandii... at least IMO

 

[Chris_Himself]

Borneo Exotics says Low-wee-eye. Thats at the top of the chain. I'm sticking to my guns lol.

 

[dashman]

Well, in high school the worst nightmare was being in class with only underwear on.

Now it is being at a CP meeting and finding out that all of my self determined pronounciations have been way off all along. LOL. I have always thought it was Low-ee. Don't ask how I pronouce some of the others or I will have to change my forum name to cleatus - the slack jawed yokel.

That merilliana pitcher is insane! The lowii x merilliana is nice too, but I am more smitten by the merilliana.

 

[SirKristoff]

Yep, its pronounced Low-e-eye

 

[Chris_Himself]

Yeah, I felt pretty ganked when I was like, "Hey Peter wheres that hybrid named after you with Low-wee-eye in it?"

"It's Low-wee"

Lol.

But yeah that hybrid looks epic, Lowii hybrids have now just moved way high on my want list.

 

[Sig]

Is that a ten liter pitcher?

I don't really think the N. rajah has the biggest pitchers... it's just how long you can grow it...

 

[SirKristoff]

for the first year i was growing these things i always thought it was Low-ee too, dont feel bad xD
when i found out it was Low-e-eye, i was like thats a strange name wth lol

 

[Ngantnier]

I say low-ee-eye

 

[mobile]

N. Merilliana x Lowii I think?

Now is it LOW-eye, or LOW-wee-eye? I thought it was the 2nd one, Peter corrected me and said it was the first one.

Curiosity got the better of me, so I contacted the Cambridge Dictionaries Online team for their opinion on which pronunciation is correct.

Here is their reply:

Thank you for your enquiry regarding pronunciation. Our Senior Commissioning Editor has advised that this is a latinized form of the surname Low, and would say Low - ee - eye, as in radii. However, he also says that, being Latin, there is probably no right or wrong answer here!


Best wishes,

The Dictionaries Online team

 

[Taargus]

Proper latin would dictate "low-ee-eye" and that may sound slightly different from people having various accents.

@mobile- I keep hearing there is no right or wrong pronunciation, along with a "correct" way to say latin names. Why are different pronunciations appropriate if there is a rule for them, such as the "ii" suffix = "ee-eye?"