Moss Spelling Dictionary

lanularia, corrected

heard as lanularia

spelled lunularia

Lunularia. The first vowel is u, from luna.

What the ear did

Writing a at the start of an unstressed syllable is a fair phonetic guess in English and takes the name away from its root. Once the moon is gone from luna, nothing about the crescent cups makes sense.

Sound decision: an unstressed vowel blurring. Said loon-yoo-LAIR-ee-uh.

L-U-N-U-L-A-R-I-A

The full entry for lunularia covers the name itself.

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