The official how do you pronounce it thread

[acrylic2k]

A-CROP-RAH ?

Where did the other "O" go?


Try Distichodus sexfasciatus ........

 

[foxt]

Just picked this name up from a post about a particular frogspawn. How do you pronounce "yaeyamnesis "? Yay-yam-knee-sis?

 

[Retro Reefer]

I've stumbled with that one but pronounce it Puh-sam-uh-kora

thanks! I’ll try it out at my LFS and see what kind of looks I get.. ;Hilarious

Chrome-is
Not chrome-ies

great one.. I pronounced them chrome-ies for many years ;Facepalm

 

[fuelman]

great thread hope i'm not the only one not sure about "tenuis"

 

[Retro Reefer]

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great thread hope i'm not the only one not sure about "tenuis"

the “is” is not pronounced like the word is but more like “es”
ten-u-is

 

[TetoCCB]

So I thought it would be fun and hopefully useful to start a thread for the proper pronunciation of all the different things related to Reef keeping, be it livestock or equipment I hear things pronounced so differently sometimes I struggle to even determine what someone’s actually talking about ;)

For example do you pronounce Chaetomorpha as Kay-toe?

Or Chee-toe? ;Hilarious

Another common one I hear is Acropora, do you pronounce it as A-crop-ora or Ac-ro-pora?

If you would like clarification on pronunciations please ask and hopefully people smarter than me will chime in or if you would just like to correct common mispronunciations that drive you crazy this is your place to vent :)

Several decades ago, I was showing my sister a saltwater tank at an LFS in our hometown (I was into fresh water, then)... Imagine my embarrassment when I pointed out an ‘anni-moan’ in one tank and the LFS guy cleaning the glass in a tank behind me corrected me, “ahem... uh-nim-uh-nee”...

I can still feel the heat in my cheeks...

 

[TetoCCB]

Anyone want to take a stab at Pasmmocora coral? Picked up a small frag over the weekend and couldn’t understand the clerk when they told me what it was, again not wanting to seem dumb I just nodded my head in agreement and smiled ;Hilarious

Is that the common name or scientific name?... That double ‘m’ looks odd...

 

[themcnertney]

kalkwasser ?

 

[themcnertney]

asterina starfish ?

 

[themcnertney]

and of coarse anemone ?

haha had to.

 

[Retro Reefer]

Is that the common name or scientific name?... That double ‘m’ looks odd...

scientific.. it’s a sps coral genus that comes in branching or encrusting variety’s and tolerates low light.

 

[C. Eymann]

kalkwasser ?

German for "chalk water"

 

[Retro Reefer]

Kalkwasser means lime water in German and is pronounced exactly like it sounds Kalk-wasser

 

[C. Eymann]

Kalkwasser means lime water in German and is pronounced exactly like it sounds Kalk-wasser

Limettewasser would be lime water I thought?

kalk= chalk in German to my limited knowledge of the language.

 

[Retro Reefer]

Limettewasser would be lime water I thought?

kalk= chalk in German to my limited knowledge of the language.

I have heard it referred to as chalk before but the actual the German word for lime water is kalkwasser..

https://www.bing.com/translator/?ref=TThis&text=lime+water&from=en&to=de

 

[C. Eymann]

I have heard it referred to as chalk before but the actual the German word for lime water is kalkwasser..

https://www.bing.com/translator/?ref=TThis&text=lime+water&from=en&to=de

huh, whelp, TIL

 

[ruegaroo]

I had been pronouncing alveopora as al-vey-oh-pora but I recently heard a dealer say al-veeeee-oh-pora and it really shook me up.

 

[Retro Reefer]

I've pronounced Tunze every way possible I thought until I read "tunes" on this thread! :confused:;Shamefullyembarrased

tunes is the German pronunciation and in English it sounds like ton’z

 

[ZoWhat]

I believe the Latin derivative of "Reef Keeping" involves the word "Bankruptcy"

 

[Tamberav]

I say everything wrong...even when I know it's wrong...from habit... Even wrasse.

But I do it for other words like Italian...

Probably crappy school teaching (no phonics?) And the fact my mother does it too.....so environment.

Oh well... no one is perfect