Settle this contentious and divisive Christmas question.

In My Humble Opinion
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Which is it?

2

That one.

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I have never heard a T at the end of the first syllable. I frequently hear setta and settia as the ending of the word.

4

That;'s a ger-a-ni-um you’re pointing at.

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There is no option for how I pronounce it - “poin setta”

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+1

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The way it’s spelled. POIN-SET-TI-A.

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+2

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Well then, no wonder there have been fights to the death. No one can be correct as there is no “T” in the first syllable. All this carnage at family gatherings for nothing!

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What manson1972 said.
+3

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+1

Exactly right. That’s the way it’s spelled.

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I swear, the poll wasn’t up when I posted that!

13

Poin-setta. No “T” in the first syllable. The “I” sound near the end is rounded off in my Texan dialect.

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+1

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  • whatever it’s up to.
    poinsettia
    [poin-set-ee-uh, -set-uh]
    Spell Syllables
    Examples Word Origin
    noun

a plant, Euphorbia (Poinsettia) pulcherrima, of the spurge family, native to Mexico and Central America, having variously lobed leaves and brilliant scarlet, pink, or white petallike bracts.

16

Not Levi-osa, it’s le-vi-OSA…

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Like this. It’s one of the dictionary pronunciations, and the one I first heard.

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right-ti-a!

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+3 or 4 or wherever we’re at.

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This.