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Yesterday, I started a thread explaining the correct way to pronounce "Chaeto." (You can find that thread HERE.) So, today I thought I'd get one going on the correct way to pronounce another word that is often (usually?) mispronounced in our hobby.
The word I'm looking at today is "Nudibranch." This one gets pronounced incorrectly as "noody-branch" (like a branch on a tree?). It's like because we see the word "branch" in there, we feel compelled to pronounce that as if it was the English word for a new limb on a tree.
The last syllable occasionally gets corrected to "bränch" as if our tree were now grown in the UK (with the "a" having an "ah" sound like in "father"). ...and that change is actually correct...but it's not enough to fix our pronunciation.
...because it's that "ch" on the end that seems to be the part that messes up most people. The correct way to say that "ch" is with the "k" sound typical of Latin (just like it was in our word yesterday).
The correct way to pronounce this word is "Noo-di-brahnk."
Now didn't that information transform and fulfill your day!? Happy Reefing, friends!!
The word I'm looking at today is "Nudibranch." This one gets pronounced incorrectly as "noody-branch" (like a branch on a tree?). It's like because we see the word "branch" in there, we feel compelled to pronounce that as if it was the English word for a new limb on a tree.
The last syllable occasionally gets corrected to "bränch" as if our tree were now grown in the UK (with the "a" having an "ah" sound like in "father"). ...and that change is actually correct...but it's not enough to fix our pronunciation.
...because it's that "ch" on the end that seems to be the part that messes up most people. The correct way to say that "ch" is with the "k" sound typical of Latin (just like it was in our word yesterday).
The correct way to pronounce this word is "Noo-di-brahnk."
Now didn't that information transform and fulfill your day!? Happy Reefing, friends!!