Here's a fun one - Pronunciations . . . .

[vetteguy53081]

If this Hobby isn't confusing enough, there are an abundance of titles and names that are often confusing as to how they are pronounced. Some are:

Sicce - Sea-chay - we often hear Sice
Tunze - Tune - zee - we often hear Tons
Chaeto - Kato - we often hear cheeto
Noopsyche - Noop-sh= We here many variations such as Noop-sike

What are some you have seen or mis-pronounced (dont be bashful) ?

 

[F i s h y]

@rmorris_14 Chaeto...... Kato or Cheeto?

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

I've seen someone pronounce acropora as "a-crop-ora"

 

[snorklr]

thanks...i've been calling them sick-key and toons...i'm literally afraid to say the name of any coral because i'm sure i've got it wrong...usually go to shows and ask "what is that" even when i know what it is just to hear someone else pronounce it ....fay-vee-ah? fah- vie-i ?cyphastrea ? not a clue...etc,etc etc

 

[rmorris_14]

@rmorris_14 Chaeto...... Kato or Cheeto?

obviously cheeto.

 

[randomfishdude]

Data....................................

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Cool thread! :)

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I always say Tone-ze even though I know it's tune-ze

 

[nereefpat]

KEE-toe, I believe

 

[fishguy242]

fun as in fun ? or funny as "tank thread" compared to everyone saying "build thread" ?

 

[Battlecorals Verified Sponsor]

I've heard this a few times by people way smarter than me.

Acropora: uh-CROP-o-ra, as opposed to ack-ro-pora

Montipora: Mon-TIP-o-ra, as opposed to monti-pora

 

[Dburr1014]

@rmorris_14 Chaeto...... Kato or Cheeto?

If you spell it right... Cheato, chee-a-toe.

 

[Dburr1014]

Okay, berghia nudibranch ... Go!

 

[Cthulukelele]

Gyre is one that often gets pronounced "guy-er"

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

I've seen someone pronounce acropora as "a-crop-ora"

Everytime I hear it that way, it makes me question the persons snobbishness.

 

[Dburr1014]

I always say Tone-ze even though I know it's tune-ze

I thought it was tun-zee

 

[Shon]

If this Hobby isn't confusing enough, there are an abundance of titles and names that are often confusing as to how they are pronounced. Some are:

Sicce

Sick-ee

Tunze

Tunes

Chaeto

Key-Toe

Noopsyche

New Psyche

Reminds me of:
e.m.p. vs EMP

"Being wrong isn't a democracy."

 

[mtfish]

Between being a former alter boy in the Catholic church and all the biology I have studied I am good a greek and latin words. Even then people say I talk funny because "they say" I have a Texas accent. I talk perfectly fine, its you other folks that talk funny, lol! So my word is:
polychaete (aka bristleworm) = poly keet.

 

[rmorris_14]

tunze= tons... everyone knows that.

 

[Jmp998]

Okay, berghia nudibranch ... Go!

Pronounced ‘slug’.