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howardj

howardj

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What about Lysmata wurdemanni (Peppermint shrimp scientific name)
Liz-matt-uh word-uh-mon-ee ?
 
T

tizzo

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Originally Posted by HowardJ
http:///forum/post/2554902
What about Lysmata wurdemanni (Peppermint shrimp scientific name)
Liz-matt-uh word-uh-mon-ee ?
Ummm, yeah, that'd be...
pep-er-mint-shrimp.
 
howardj

howardj

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No, Tizzo, I want to know how to pronounce the scientific name
Alix- they died, and the peppermint's went back to the LFS
 
srfisher17

srfisher17

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Originally Posted by coraljunky
http:///forum/post/2553509
ak row pour a
chrome is
har le kin
rass
(här'lĭ-kwĭn),is the 1st listed...always the way I say it.
I can't pronounce "That skimmer is HOW much" without trembling and screwing up the words.
 
bronco300

bronco300

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and Fiji...
FEE-GEE
not FU-GEE....i dont know how a "U" gets in that word,lol..but i hear it all the time...
 
saltn00b

saltn00b

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Originally Posted by MX#28
http:///forum/post/2553724
Technically and scientifically, acropora is pronounced Ah-crop-or-ah, but you're average reefer will look at you like an idiot if you say it that way. C'est la vie.

Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2554063
Oh and nobody wants to ask about MAJANO! lol.
as far as acropora, it used to be... ah CROP er ah
now it more commonly ack ROW pour ah
But both ways are correct.
Edit... oops, MX28 beat me to the acro one...
well both of you are sort of right / wrong.
both ways are accepted and it is still a source of bitter argument amongst marine biologists. however, i was at local reef club meeting where we were given a speach by leading reefer and marine biologist whose name escapes me at the moment, and what he said i will stick with because it is backed up etemologically speaking.
acropora is the combination of two latin words, (which i also cannot recall, i tried to look up but , gave up ...) and so it would be silly to call it anything but acro - pora
 
perfectdark

perfectdark

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And that would be Akron, meaning exremity and pore, meaning porous. It means that its calcium skeleton is porous at the extremities or tips of each branch.
 
florida joe

florida joe

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Originally Posted by travis99
http:///forum/post/2554832
I got one.
refugium
is it
re fue g um
or
ref u g um
REF – Hugh- EM so named after a refuge first used by Dr Walter Adey of the Smithsonian institute to describe bodies of water separated from the main display to house organisms with out being prayed upon
I know I am long winded
 
alix2.0

alix2.0

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Originally Posted by PerfectDark
http:///forum/post/2555952
And that would be Akron, meaning exremity and pore, meaning porous.
more like extremely poor.
I live in Akron. well, just outside of it. i used to.
L.A. represent!
 
metweezer

metweezer

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Alix,
I thought that it makes them easier to read. I am 60 years old after all.
P.S. It's not like I am using caps. Is this offensive also?
 
ophiura

ophiura

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Acropora? Many people pronounce it a-crop-OR-uh...remember, how do you pronounce Acropolis? a-crop-O-lis? nope.

I pronounce Majano as Ma-HAN-oo
How about squamosissimum? As in Ophioderma squamosissimum?
Or Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis?
 
alix2.0

alix2.0

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Originally Posted by metweezer
http:///forum/post/2556441
Alix,
I thought that it makes them easier to read. I am 60 years old after all.
P.S. It's not like I am using caps. Is this offensive also?
no, i dont mind it, i was just wondering.
 
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