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Before I leave off this essay on pronunciation, I feel I must quote a lovely poem from Johnson and Smith’s Plant Names Simplified about the genus Cyclamen, a Mediter-
ranean member of the Primulaceae, which goes like this:
How shall we sound its mystic name
Of Greek descent and Persian fame?
Shall “y” be long and “a” be short,
Or will the “y” and “a” retort?
Shall “y” be lightly rippled o’er,
Or should we emphasise it more?
Alas! The doctors disagree,
For “y’s” a doubtful quantity.
Some people use it now and then,
As if ’twere written “Sickly-men”;
But as it comes from kuklos, Greek,
Why not “kick-laymen,” so to speak?
The gardener, with his ready wit,
Upon another mode has hit;
He’s terse and brief — long names dislikes,
And so he renders it as “Sykes.”
And when struggling with what appear to be inconsistencies, it is best to recall the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” Oscar Wilde, “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative,” and finally, Aldous Huxley, “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
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