Pronunciation of "Bichir"

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My boss (ichthyologist - granted, this does not mean he has a degree in pronunciation) and I both say bish-er.
 
smpage;4629372; said:
Threads like this always come up every 3 months or so and every time I have to bust my butt looking through the forum for beblondie's thread that states that it is OFFICIALLY pronounced BIKER. seriously....


Why is it Biker? Scroll up, I've found the answer. There isn't an answer. There's a lot of pronounciations.
 
ballinouttacntrol;4629378; said:
What's worse, the fact that it comes up every 3 months for people who don't know the answer...or the fact that you click on it every 3 months and complain about it?

people complain when people make threads that have been done before, people complain when you bump an old thread. just can't win can ya?

i'd always said bischeer, now i know it's biker

probably the fact that I click on it every time haha. I have officially been called out.
 
Lol i know. I went into petco once, and they had a bichir. And I was looking at it (before I knew anything about fish) and I was like, "DADDY DADDY I WANT ONE" and then these two guys, im dead serious about this, they were dressed up in leather jackets with those spikes on the shoulder pads or whatever lol. Looked like total biker guys, and they said to me, "Oh man, thats a biker eel. Nasty things." And I was like :( Because I only liked community fish that had little tea parties every day and it was like a big happy family. Anyway, I ended up getting one and it ate one of my fish. I wasn't happy. :grinno:
 
this thread has gotten alot bigger than I thought haha. I always say it like"bisheer", but who knows. Like i said all are most likely correct in some form or another.
 
smpage;4629372; said:
Threads like this always come up every 3 months or so and every time I have to bust my butt looking through the forum for beblondie's thread that states that it is OFFICIALLY pronounced BIKER. seriously....

I respect Anne but she is not the end-all source for bichir pronunciation. There are clearly multiple correct ways, and in no way is "biker" official.
 
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