Pronunciation thread

[Bosco1025]

very interesting.. looks like pretty much... everyone... was right.

 

[Stump]

Playco, huh? WTF lol. Pleco to me with the e also.

I pronounce it playco. Plee-co just doesn't set right.

As long as it has an 'o' at the end, I don't really care.

I pronounce bichir "biker". lol

and Orino would be "Oar-in-o" to me.



Crazy world.






edit: packer, your sig is pure evil. It physically hurts me to read it.

 

[Bosco1025]

Plee-co just doesn't set right.

i dont know of many people saying "plee-co"... im thinking (pleck-oh)

 

[kog]

^ Yea...

when i pronounce it i usually just put a sort of mmmm before boo-nah (mmboo-nah)

Yea, should be more accurate.

Dovii for instance. in my mind it is (dough-vee)


what do you say? tell me what you think of these two, and through out some new one while you're at it!

This should be pronounced as you would radii, so dough-vee eye.

Dovii-dough-vee to me
Umbee-I pronounced it as "am-bee". Strange as it may sound though.

ryukin-"ra-yu-kin"

To me am-bee sounds like um-bee hehe

In Japanese the u in a word like that isnt emphasised, so its ryu-kin.

 

[angryinsect]

^ Yea...

Yea, should be more accurate.


This should be pronounced as you would radii, so dough-vee eye.


Actually in latin a double i at the end is an ee sound, whereas a single i at the end is an i sound. So it would definitely be dough-vee. Radii is a plural form of a word giving it different pronunciation.

 

[Jory]

list of weird ones ive heard consists of:

managuense- mane-guh-neeze
buttikoferi- butter-cough
farlowella- fare-low-ella
cichlid- chick-let
discus- d*ck-less
dovii- dove-ee-eye
gourami- gore-me

haha working at a fish store you hear some weird stuff.

 

[kog]

^ Yea...

Yea, should be more accurate.


This should be pronounced as you would radii, so dough-vee eye.


Actually in latin a double i at the end is an ee sound, whereas a single i at the end is an i sound. So it would definitely be dough-vee. Radii is a plural form of a word giving it different pronunciation.

I heard them pronounced both ways, I think i get why
I found this

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Commemorative names (eponyms): [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Taxa may commemorate personal names or surnames such as Alice Eastwood's Daisy, Virginia's Warbler, and Wilson's Honeycreeper. These names are treated as latinized possessive nouns (Alice's = aliciae, Wilson's = wilsoni). The classical accent may be determined by the Latin form of the name. If Wilson were latinized as Wilsonius the pronunciation of wilsoni would be "wil-SO-nye." If Wilson were latinized as Wilsonus, the pronunciation of wilsoni would be "WIL-so-nye." Archival records indicate inconsistency in latinization of names, so some flexibility exists in pronunciation, and there is precedent in both classical and modern Latin for conservation. Thus "WIL-so-nye" (Rule 2c ) is preferable to "wil-SO-ni," whereas andersoni is best treated as "an-der-SO-ni" rather than "an-DER-so-ni." [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]aberti = "a-BER-tye" = Rule 2a [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]aliceae = "al-IS-ee-ee" = Rule 2c [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]calderi = "CALL-de-rye" = Rule 2c[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]hendersonii = "hen-der-SO-nee-eye" = Rule 2c [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]lewisii = "lew-ISS-ee-eye" = Rule 2c [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]virginiae = "vir-JIN-ee-ee" = Rule 2c [/FONT]

http://www.saltspring.com/capewest/pron.htm

some are ee-eye ...when its a commemorative name..heh.

So I guess its dovee unless its named after something ^^"

 

[FSM]

dovii - dough-vee
bichir - birch-er
pleco - pleh-co...where do people come up with plee-co? Play-co at least makes sense.

list of weird ones ive heard consists of:

managuense- mane-guh-neeze
buttikoferi- butter-cough
farlowella- fare-low-ella
cichlid- chick-let
discus- d*ck-less
dovii- dove-ee-eye
gourami- gore-me

haha working at a fish store you hear some weird stuff.

some people are morons and don't realize that manganese is a metal, not a fish.

 

[Dan F]

Interesting thread!

My favorite is "bichir". It is strange how many people add an extra 'r'. I have always pronounced it "biker", around here that is how most people say it. According to my World Book Dictionary it is pronounced (bich'ər) which would be something like "*****-err". I'm sticking to "biker"!

 

[Dan F]

Interesting thread!

My favorite is "bichir". It is strange how many people add an extra 'r'. I have always pronounced it "biker", around here that is how most people say it. According to my World Book Dictionary it is pronounced (bich'ər) which would be something like "*****-err". I'm sticking to "biker"!

The auto-bot starred out my name for a female dog... I guess it could be "bich-err".