NAME MY BIRCHIR!! and id maybe?

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I thought I was going to easily find some supporting evidence but I see there has been lots of debate on the subject since I last looked into it, like 8 years ago or so. I will see if I can find the scholarly article that I once read on the subject. It basically explained how the ch made a hard k sound in the original description of polypterus as it is not actually a french word.
 

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There are a number of recognized pronunciations

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Believe Anne's primer in the sticky section has a piece on this
 
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