Right on Point! (iPhriday Flower)
Except there’s no “T” is there? Who knew? After a lifetime of hearing and pronouncing it as POINTsettia, it’s only now I learn it’s not. What a shocker to learn differently. Dang!
Learning that I’ve been mispronouncing it forever is almost as funny as the way Master Fifteen cringed with complete and utter embarrassment as I took this photo at the grocery store on the weekend. Good to know I’ve still got it, lol!😂
Oddly until I moved to California 6 years ago I thought it was pronounced poin-set-a rather than poin-set-E-a… apparently poinsettias in America are grown here in Encinitas, California (about 20 min north of where I live), they had a monopoly on the plant until the 1990s because they figured out a way to make it bushier than other growers. So when we moved to California everyone was pronouncing it differently and we decided to look it up in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poinsettia)and found out that they are grown right here, so I guess they are pronouncing it correctly. Haha. 🙂
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Goodness, we’ve done all this research for one flower – small but mighty, lol!
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sow what’s the point? A lot of people say it with the T. Is this a two toned poin(t)settia?
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The point is it has five points, lol!
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Ah see… got it, doh me 🙂
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