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So ive heard several ways that Tetraodon is pronounced. I work in an awesome "LFS" so i hear the butcherings constantly. These pronunciations make me wonder though...

1. Tetra Don as most say it
2. Tetra Oh Don doesnt really roll off the tounge
3. Tet Ray Oh Don that one was pretty funny

Closer to Tet-rah-oh-don

From Tetra ~ four & odont ~tooth

really... how would you write it out in retard notation

Wow nevermind you did spell it out... whos the retard now. haha thanks RTR

I say it Tetra-ah-don, even though I know its Tetra-o-don.

I pronounce it Te-trow-don, like the japanese "ao," as in "Gao," pronounced "ow."

Normal scientific name pronounciation varies country to country, but in the USA we do try very hard not to elide out or fuse adjacent syllables. When you do that you lose the root words that give the name meaning. The family is defined by the fused dental plates, why not keep the verbal form which provides that meaning?

RTR wrote:Normal scientific name pronounciation varies country to country, but in the USA we do try very hard not to elide out or fuse adjacent syllables. When you do that you lose the root words that give the name meaning. The family is defined by the fused dental plates, why not keep the verbal form which provides that meaning?

Which would be "Te-tra-oh-don?"

Which would be four syllables, whatever spin you put on their pronunciation.

"Throatwarbler mangrove"

There ya go

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