The "How do you pronounce things" thread

Conch can be correctly said as con-ch or con-k. I would normally say con-k, but it seems that's the "sophisticated" way to say it, so nobody is really bright enough to figure it out..so I stick to saying con-ch.
 
Rock Anemone,
Hah!!!! You're a minute too late!!!
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and onto the subject of this thread... Is it Kiton, or Chiton?
 
nihonjin_anemone said:
Conch can be correctly said as con-ch or con-k. I would normally say con-k, but it seems that's the "sophisticated" way to say it, so nobody is really bright enough to figure it out..so I stick to saying con-ch.
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Except don't try that in the Caribbean or Bahamas! :D
 
Rock,
Close, but no sea cucumber....

Nihonjin ( and what about this one),
It's Too- toosh. My wife had a Maltese named Toupy, and she also nicknamed it Toutouche. We had to put it to sleep at only 5 years old so thatit wouldn't suffer ( had a spinal column problem even after 2 operations and it kept getting worse). We both had a hard time dealing with having to do this to the litle guy, so in his remembrance, I use this name.`
Here's a pic of the little guy (you can see why we were attached to the little Ewok).
 
My sister has a half maltese half poodle named Holly
Toutouche said:
Rock,
Close, but no sea cucumber....

Nihonjin ( and what about this one),
It's Too- toosh. My wife had a Maltese named Toupy, and she also nicknamed it Toutouche. We had to put it to sleep at only 5 years old so thatit wouldn't suffer ( had a spinal column problem even after 2 operations and it kept getting worse). We both had a hard time dealing with having to do this to the litle guy, so in his remembrance, I use this name.`
Here's a pic of the little guy (you can see why we were attached to the little Ewok).
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Sorry to hear about your little guy:(

My sister has a maltipoo named Holly (AKA Hoots or Poofro, dont ask, okay?). She is the goofiest looking and acting dog in the world!


John
 
Re: The "How do you pronounce things" thread

Zooxanthellae- zoÃ"šÃ‚·oÃ"šÃ‚·xanÃ"šÃ‚·thelÃ"šÃ‚·la
Conch- Conk

Rock Anemone:D
 
Oh this rules...

First I'll add:

duncanopsamia - dunkin - op - SAH - mee - ah

But how about:

centropyge
euxiphipops (hehehe)
chaetomorpha

S !
 
Great Thread!!


Theses had me for a while:

Pachyclavularia- PACK-ee-CLAV-yu-LAIR-ee-uh

Alcyonium- al-see-OH-nee-um



My favorite:

Scleronephthya- SKLEH-ro-NEPH-thee-uh
 
Quick way to not sound like a newb when pronouncing Latin words. Latin is pretty straight forward - there are significantly fewer ways to pronounce sounds than in English. Rules are absolute, there are no exceptions. For example, in Latin "c" is ALWAYS hard. So for all of you who pronounce percula as "per-CYU-la" or "per-CELL-a" you need to revise your thinking :) The worst is crocea, which even I pronounce as "cro-SAY-uh" - it probably should be "cro-CAY-ah".

Vowels
Short
a as in again
e as in met
i as in hint
o as in offer
u as in foot

Long
a as in father
e as in gate
i as in eat
o as in open
u as in food

y like the French u

Dipthongs
ae as in kite
au as in out
ei as in stray
oe as in coil

Consonants
c as in car
g as in gate
j as in yet
r trilled
s as in sign
t pronounced without aspiration
v as in win
bs as in apse
bt as in apt
ch as in chaotic
ph as in top heavy
th as in take

As far as stress goes, a general rule for working out where the stress should fall is the following:

If a word has only two syllables, the accent will fall on the first syllable.

If a word has more than two syllables,
the stress will fall on the second last syllable if that syllable contains a long vowel or a short vowel followed by a consonant, otherwise the stress will fall on the third last syllable eg celériter, sollícitus.

So...

percula: per-COO-la
sebae: SEE-bye
zooxanthellae: zoh-uh-zan-TAY-lie
crocea: cro-CAY-ah
ocellaris: ock-el-AR-is
gigantea: ghee-gant-AYE-ah (there is no "gee" sound in Latin)
digitada: dee-ghee-TAH-dah
 
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LOL ~ great thread!

On Merriam-Webster's website, you can look up a word and hear it pronouced. It definitely is "zo-ah-zan-THELL-a."

I am so glad that all this time I've been saying conch (konk) correctly. LOL

What bugs me is not knowing whether it's capanella or capnella.

Yesterday at our reef meeting, someone kept saying "da-serra" clams for "derasa" and "photo-plankton" for phytoplankton. LOL!

Oh yeah, and he kept saying "Montipora digitelli" instead of digitata. Hee hee!!!

Hoo, man, and many people in my reef club keep saying "ka-loop-ree-a" instead of caulerpa (KAWL-er-pa). Drives me nuts!

~ Sherri
 
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