Pro-nounce-e-ation

[Johnny Reefer]

Tunze - Tun-zee
Aiptasia - Ap-tay-jgia (jgia? sort of a hard long j. As someone said...like in Fantasia).

How 'bout this one. Chaeto. I say kay-toe. I've heard it chee-toe. Bong! Beg to differ.

Acclimatize. A-climb-a-ties. I've heard that one completely botched before to be almost unrecognizable. Good thing it was said twice, and I could confirm what I was hearing.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Chee toe!!

How do you say "sump"? I say sum-p.

Hehe.

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

Chee toe!!

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.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

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!!! )

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by christyf5

But what about haemoglobin? .....

Good point, however, I still say kay-toe.

Cheers,

[Kryten]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

Good point, however, I still say kay-toe.

Cheers,

Cool, I always used to say it chay-toe, but now I'll say kay-toe because it will remind me of Kato from the Pink Panther movies!

[EmilyB]

Remember Eric Borneman's talk Christy ? What the heck was it, oh yah,

A-CROP-ora

[wetcoast]

Coraline - Is it Coral-EYE-ne or CoralEEN ?

Nudibranch - Is it NudeeBRANCH (as in tree) or NudeeBRONC (as in itis?)

[fortheloveofcrabs]

The tree one - for sure... Right...?

[justinl]

well for one coralline has two "L"s so i say coral-een.

nudibranch ends hard. so like nudi-brangk. lol that's just how i say it though. tomato, tomahto... shrug.