Genus and Species pronounciation

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Jason_S;3473542; said:
Most people I've talked to call it doe-vee-eye but I believe the proper pronunication is dow-ee-eye. The cichlid was named after Dow, but there is no w in the latin language or something like that so the W was changed to a V.

As for pronunciation, the fact that latin is a dead language, who's to say exactly what the correct pronunciation is? There are differences even among the experts. I've heard a lot of people pronounce Thorichthys as Thor-ick-these while Rusty Wessel pronounced Thor-itch-these. Who's to say who's right?

And I've always called it fest-ay. If, when named after a person/location and ends with I it has a long I sound...makes sense to me that ae would have a long A sound. Just my $0.02. :)

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