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Posted: April 30 2010 at 8:19pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney.

We read it tonight. Two embarrassing questions:

How do you pronounce RUMPHIUS?

How do you pronounce LUPINE?



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Posted: April 30 2010 at 8:43pm | IP Logged Quote Mimip
Not embarrassing questions and I bet a we might say it differently

I say run-fee-us

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loo-pin

How do you say it?

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Posted: April 30 2010 at 9:41pm | IP Logged Quote JaysFamily
Apparently nobody knows! I guess that means that you get to decide how it's pronounced.

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We say Rum-fee-us
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Posted: April 30 2010 at 10:38pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Well, my default way was

Rum-fee-us

Loo-pyne

but ds and I weren't quite feeling it.

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Posted: April 30 2010 at 10:43pm | IP Logged Quote Christine
We say Rum-fee-is (the u sounds like short i and the s says s as in spoon)
and loo-pine (long i).

These are the pronunciations that I heard from a college English professor and they stuck. Our pronunciations could be a West coast thing though.

We have lupines growing in ours and our neighbors' yards and along the side of our freeway exit. They are great flowers!

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Posted: April 30 2010 at 10:45pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Christine wrote:
We say Rum-fee-is (the u sounds like short i and the s says s as in spoon)
and loo-pine (long i).

These are the pronunciations that I heard from a college English professor and they stuck. Our pronunciations could be a West coast thing though.

We have lupines growing in ours and our neighbors' yards and along the side of our freeway exit. They are great flowers!


Ah, then I'm saying like West coasters! Okay!

My son wants to grow them now. Need to find out if they can be an East Coast thing!

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Well, I guess I have been mispronouncing her name all of these years. I have always said 'Rum-fuss.' Oops. It's too late to change now.

I was just thinking about this book as I picked it up from the library for our annual check-out (with this book, I mean.) I have been getting this book every spring for the last 6 years. My youngest is 7 so I wonder how much longer we will be doing the spring check out. I can't imagine a spring without Miss Rumphius (however you pronounce her name.)

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Posted: May 03 2010 at 9:08am | IP Logged Quote momtomany
JennGM wrote:

My son wants to grow them now. Need to find out if they can be an East Coast thing!


I remember seeing a beautiful field of them in Maine on a trip one time, so I'm sure that you can grow them in the East.

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Posted: May 03 2010 at 9:12am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I had been meaning to read it for a while, and was so happy to come upon a copy at a used book sale.

Although it's wonderful for the spring season, I personally was very touched by some things.

One was to have patience, all in God's time. The fact that she couldn't plant more flowers because of her health spoke volumes to me. How many times my plans fall apart because God's plans is the one to be done? Sickness, family matters, travel, money situations.... Even that simple garden plan has had to be postponed so many times.

And making the world beautiful is not just a cosmetic challenge, but our Christian challenge, living and spreading the Gospel. Am I living my life in such a way that I am making the world more beautiful? Am I living the corporal and spiritual works of mercy?

Probably not what the author intended, but I was quite moved last night pondering on these things.

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