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Old 06-16-2007, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer View Post
But it's not spelt Cheato, it's spelt Chaeto. I don't see how anyone gets chee-toe out of Chaeto.....unless they're misspelling it? . JMO.
But what about haemoglobin? Its latin. They had their own (weird) ideas about spelling and pronunciation


I say key-toe. key-toe-morfa. But I think chee-toe is also "acceptable". According to meriamwebster.com and yahoo education


I think one of my faves is zoxanthellae. I always missed the x in the middle. called them zoe-anthellay. Then one day Jamie pronounced it (correctly of course, zoe-zan-thellay). EmilyB and I sort of looked at each other and then later on had a good laugh (oohhh so thats how its pronounced!!! )
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