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Waterlily or Water Lily?
« on: August 17, 2011, 02:54:39 PM »
One word or two? I'm giving a presentation and seeing as how I am the expert (defined as knowing more than the audience), I suppose I should know whether it's waterlilies or water lilies. I've always thought of it as one word but spell check keeps slapping me. Hmmm, 'ja think I should also know if it's watergarden or water garden?  :o
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Re: Waterlily or Water Lily?
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2011, 03:03:23 PM »
2 in both cases!
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Re: Waterlily or Water Lily?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2011, 04:16:24 PM »
Proper? Its all argueable, I guess. But since my earliest reference was Slocum's book, I tend to follow that lead. That is to say, "waterlilies," and "water garden."

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Re: Waterlily or Water Lily?
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2011, 06:34:07 AM »
Waterlily....one word.   I remember years back when the waterlily society   (IWGS) came up with that.   It was in the same order as daylily....being one word.
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Re: Waterlily or Water Lily?
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2011, 07:59:44 AM »
Yes, I recall recently having read something about the different choices of words, terms, and their spelling, and I think Kitt Knotts wrote it and was quite funny! The piece removed any notion of being pretentious. Went to try and find it, but no luck.

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