Moss Spelling Dictionary

lyoucobryum, and where the you comes from

heard as lyoucobryum

spelled leucobryum

From eucalyptus and Europe, where eu really does say yoo. Here it is leucobryum.

What the ear did

The reader is generalising an English habit onto a Greek stem that does not take it. In every leuco- word in English the sound is a plain oo, and the spelling stays eu regardless.

Sound decision: a Latin or Greek vowel pair. Said loo-koh-BRY-um.

L-E-U-C-O-B-R-Y-U-M

The full entry for leucobryum covers the name itself.

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