The "How do you pronounce things" thread

caulastrea - call-a-stree-a
stylophora - stylo-pooraa
hydnophora - hide-no-poor-a
turbinaria - turb-in-air-rea

Just some guesses, hahahaha... We are so good at talking about them via text, but we can't really talk about them via voice can we?

Rock Anemone:D
 
Rock,
your 2 for 4.

StI - lo - fora
HIde - no - fora

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hee! Hee!
 
gcvt said:
What about nudibranch?

Is the ending pronounced like one would say 'tree branch'? Or does the ending sound like 'brank'?
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I've always prounced that
Nude-E-Branch
(Branch as in Tree branch, not Bran-K)

Graham
 
BonsaiNut said:
Heh :) Going to Merriam-Webster for pronounciation is like going to Clinton for ethics classes. It might be what some people find acceptable today, but classicists would raise their eyebrows :)

"th" in Latin is ALWAYS hard - like tom, tim, take, etc. There is no "th" sound in Latin pronounciation.
"ae" in Latin is ALWAYS a hard "i" - like time, site, crime, etc.
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you hit that one on the head. i always laugh when people run out to layman dictionaries for definitions and such... who really defines words and pronunciation - those who use the word, or those who write the dictionary. of course this opens the whole language argument. what is a word? what needs to be done to "make" something into a word? is slang not english? why are we here? is there a place a guy can get a drink around here?
 
how about cheatomorpha? i dont like sounding all weird when i say it to someone who asks if i have any macro.

"I have Kaeyto Moorfa"

" You have what?":D
 
Pinapple House said:
I've always prounced that
Nude-E-Branch
(Branch as in Tree branch, not Bran-K)

Graham
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Its actually the latter. Follow the rules Bonsai laid out. 'ch' is always pronounced as a hard 'k'.
 
photobarry said:
Its actually the latter. Follow the rules Bonsai laid out. 'ch' is always pronounced as a hard 'k'.
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Wow. Even on the discovery channel they pronounced it "Nude-E-Branch." It'll take a while to get used to saying the words correctly!

Graham
 
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BlAcK_PeRcUlA said:
whoa... nudibranK

never heard it said that way
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That's funny, I don't think I've ever heard it pronounced the other way. There are lots of other words that I have mispronounced for a long time though.
 
While I'm not saying that Photobarry and Bonsainut are wrong, I'm gonna go out on a limb and and play the Devil's advocate. I'm pretty sure there are exceptions to the rules as in any language, and Nudibranch is actually pronounced with a "branch" ( as in a tree). People lots of are often wrong about things, I don't think the ENTIRE WORLD is wrong about this one. I too have never ever heard it with a "brank" sound.
Until I actually hear it from a language specialist who absolutely knows, I'm gonna stick to "branch" on this one.
 
I have to agree with Toutouche on this one. Also, I doubt the Discover Channel would be saying it wrong, but who knows.

Rock Anemone:D
 
Photobarry,
O.k. fair enough. Like I said, I wasn't accusing you of being wrong, but since that looks specialized enough, I guess you're right!! Looks like the whole world CAN be wrong at times.
Now that I think about it, it makes sense, afterall, think about the word "bronchial".
 
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