ahh-crop-oh-ra / ack-roe-por-ahh

[JPMagyar]

So from what I read both are correct, which I can't believe because one really annoys the heck out of me, but anyways how do you say:

Acropora?

 

[OnceTrueFalseBr]

So from what I read both are correct, which I can't believe because one really annoys the heck out of me, but anyways how do you say:

Acropora?

Ack - Ruh -Po - wuh

Ack - Ruh - Pawr - Uh

pour - Uh!

Im a bruk-lin burn Italian Amare-ican new yawkuh HAHA imagine that pro-nun-see-ashun

I actually said it in my head and outload to see if they matched LOL

did I just make your day wurse (u-whur -ss)? LOL

 

[tnyr5]

As I remember it from my horticulture classes, scientific names are meant to be pronounced in the dialect of the speaker. However, I think ah-crop-o-ra (as in "acropolis") is probably what Lorenz Oken intended.

 

[ct_vol]

I've heard it pronounced both ways. I personally use the latter form from your post.

 

[diciple]

ak row poora you must say it correctly or your corals will be offended!

 

[basser1]

Holy thread resurrection, Batman!!!

Here you go, all you need to know.....

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292459

 

[Tweaked]

Acros lol. Unless there's a grade involved, does it matter?

 

[tfp]

ack-roe-make-u-poorer

 

[tripdad]

frus-strait-ing
chall-en-ging
bee-you-tif-full
pol-lyp-tic-col-ly-correct

 

[TreyK]

Well seeing as how the word probably came from the greek "akron" for extremity( height, summit, tip) and the latin "porus" or greek "poros" meaning pore, porosity, I pronounce it acropora (ack).

 

[basser1]

ack-roe-make-u-poorer

x 1,000.....