The "How do you pronounce things" thread

And in furtherance of my argument that it makes no sense to hold that the consonant C in Latin must always be pronounced hard, I offer the word "cello." It's chell-oh, not kell-oh or sell-oh.

Acropora should be Ah-CROP-or-ah, although Acro-POHR-ah is supposedly OK, too. But how would you pronounce that famous Greek landmark, the Acropolis? ;)
 
You know, funny thing happened this morning while I was taking my shower. I was thinking about this thread and about the word "Nudibranch". ( don't know why I was thinking about this in the shower...., but anyways...). It hit me and I laughed to myself. I've been living the explanation Photobarry had for it being pronounced "brank" at the end all my life.
Lenny Llambi's comment about latin being closest to romanian also confirms it. I'm Romanian and my last name is spelled "Nichifor", but it's pronounced NiK-E-fore. In romanian there is no letter "K" and the "CH" is always pronounced K ( at least that is what I've been told all my life, soooo.... Photobarry must be right!!)
 
I have a colleague with a last name of fuch

Not sure how he pronounces it but I just call him by his first name to avoid the issue.
 
oz said:
I have a colleague with a last name of fuch

Not sure how he pronounces it but I just call him by his first name to avoid the issue.
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I had a neighbor with the last name "Fuchs." It is pronounced with a long "u" (Fewks).
 
Since we're talking about names a bit, I had a friend named Robert Loblaw, and as often is the case him included, Bob is used as a shortened version of Robert. We used to cal him Bob Loblaw!!
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I'm not sure if they are still around, but during WWII two of Germany's largest airplane manufacturers were Focke Wolfe and Fokker. Well one time, as a child, I was in my friend's room talking about model airplanes from WWII. Well after mentioning the aforementioned manufactures a couple of times (I had just built a couple of model planes, by those very companies) his mom burst in and screamed at me Army DI style and banned me from playing with her children, b/c of my potty mouth. I wish I could have seen her face when my dad explained to her that she was just being ignorant (she was the "my kid is smarter than yours" type).:hammer:
 
Pinapple House said:
Cyano-
Kye-ano?

I've never been able to pronounce that.

Graham
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SI-ah-no, as in SI-ah-no-bak-TEER-ee-ah. The first syllable is pronounced like the word "sigh."

This isn't from the Latin anyway, it from the Greek for dark blue. Most Latin scientific terms are not really pronounced in Latin anyway. There is some deference to the Latin and certain conventions as to where to place the accent, but I don't think you will find too many biologists or botanists pronouncing hard C's or V's as W's. And in medical and legal terms, most of the Latin is fully anglicized.

Besides, I think Veni, vidi, vici sounds a lot better as VAY-nee, VEE-dee, VEE-chi. WAY-nee, WEE-dee, WEE-key sounds too much like Elmer Fudd for me and I just can't imagine Caesar prounouncing it that way or pronouncing his own name as KYE-zar, either -- too Germanic for me. :lol:
 
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Not reef related but this has always bugged me.

How do you pronounce "promenade"

most people say it prah-muh-nawd

I say it prah-muh-nayd

Like lemonade, leh-muh-nayd, or should it be leh-muh-nawd:mixed:
 
what about Nepethea?

nep-EE-theeah or nep-theea

Chaetomorpha= kay-toh-mohr-fah Is that right?

Last one's for Bomber

Jerel, would that be jer-EL or jerrel. I say it jer-ELL, but have heard both.
 
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Black Perc,

I'll bet you just did the most awesome slip through the censor loophole in the history of this board!!!!
 
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Nope i think they found me. I'm posting from mexico right now because i'm laying low outside the country so the RC police can forget about it.
 
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