pronunciations. . . - Aquarium Advice

rickschabener · 02-19-2004, 12:36 PM

Is there a book, website, or forum that lists the phonic pronunciations to many of the words in the reef/saltwater hobby? There are a lot of new words to learn and I would like to know how to pronounce them correctly.

Thanks,
Rick

reefrunner69 · 02-19-2004, 01:57 PM

Hmmm, what are you having problems with? Most have issues with the latin names.

Invertabrates; A quick reference guide and Corals; A quick reference guide by Jullian Sprung and Aquarium Corals by Eric Borneman have phonetic spellings of the latin naes for the inverts and corals we keep. I did a quick search and couldn't find an online reference for phonetic spellings of fish or inverts.

SquishyFish · 02-19-2004, 02:23 PM

My suggestion would be to just ask here when you see a weird name. Like the Spirobedae worms....its Spy-[acronym:2f3ce943fc="Reverse osmosis"]ro[/acronym:2f3ce943fc]-be-day. Its as easy as that. Save you mone and time I would think.

Hara · 02-19-2004, 02:52 PM

Sounds like a good topic for a sticky note!

reefrunner69 · 02-19-2004, 03:01 PM

You have the power

vermonter310 · 02-19-2004, 04:19 PM

I agree....Excellent topic for a sticky. Especially for us newbies!

rickschabener · 02-22-2004, 10:10 PM

Okay. Here are a few:

Annelids: An-E-l-ids?

Nudibranch: NUDI-branch, NUDI-brank, NUDI-bronk, nudi-BRONK?

Copepods: cope-[acronym:ef99032724="copepods, amphipods, etc"]pods[/acronym:ef99032724], cope-e-[acronym:ef99032724="copepods, amphipods, etc"]pods[/acronym:ef99032724]?

Detritus: de-TRI-tus, de-TRE-tus?

Polychaetes: POLY-cheets?

Zooxanthellae: zoo-AN-the-ly?

reefrunner69 · 02-22-2004, 10:50 PM

[acronym:11c936a122="Laughing out loud"]LOL[/acronym:11c936a122], ever heard latin with a southern accent?? I should have some time tomorrow to look these up, if someone else doesn't get there first.

cmor1701d · 02-22-2004, 10:53 PM

Why not try using YourDictionary.com which also includes sound pronunciations.

an·ne·lid
nu·di·branch
co·pe·pod
de·tri·tus
pol·y·chete also pol·y·chaete
zo·o·xan·thel·la

[acronym:193d81ada1="Hope this helps (or) Happy to help"]HTH[/acronym:193d81ada1],

reefrunner69 · 02-22-2004, 11:53 PM

Quote:

an·ne·lid
nu·di·branch
co·pe·pod
de·tri·tus
pol·y·chete also pol·y·chaete
zo·o·xan·thel·la

Excellent, at www.dictionary.com they also have a pronunciation key and phonetic spelling.