Pronunciation

[chrisbassist]

This is what happens when you pick up all your info online... I'm pretty sure I know how to pronounce catfish, or livebearer, they seem pretty simple. But what about cichlid?

Just from the spelling I can think of 4 possible ways of pronouncing it.

Anyone like to clarify, then whine about the state of our education where people don't know how to read?

 

[bae1994]

cichlid is pronounced like sicklid

 

[chrisbassist]

Aaah variant number 2 that I could see.

Cheers.

 

[star4]

Pronouncing "sicklid" is the easy bit some of the names of them seem right tongue twisters and spelling them is worse. Its taken me ages to stop putting an extra R in Severum (kept putting serverum) still say it wrong half the time

 

[Confish]

when i first started i only had read cichlid so i thought for a while when reading it was chill-lid lol what number was that?

 

[star4]

Geophagus Brazilliensis I just call geo's

 

[chrisbassist]

Chilll id? Uh that doesn't take into account the ch in the middle, and it also has an extra h at the start...


Geo, fay, jus?

 

[star4]

geophagus. Yeah, better than me I had to wait to hear Minxy say it lol

 

[kaivalagi]

Definitely "sik-lid" - even the online dictionary confirms it: http/dictionary.re.../browse/cichlid


I've always pronounced geophagus as geo-fay-gus...could well be wrong on that one though

 

[star4]

Hardest one for me I find is Thorichthys ellioti (thor ich this) but the Ellioti bit I never know if its Elli-ot or elli-ot-e? bit daft to breed a fish I cannot pronounce

 

[meguro]

As a prefix: geo- is taken from the Greek word γη or γαια meaning "earth", usually in the sense of "ground or land". Geo- is thus a prefix for many words dealing in some way with the earth, including:

taken from http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo

The word esophagus is derived from the Latin œsophagus, which derives from the Greek word oisophagos , lit. "entrance for eating."

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esophagus

geophagus is thus a portmanteau of geo and oesophagus, literally meaning "earth-eater"

taht should clear up pronunciation for that word

 

[the biffster]

sick-lid

well that's how i pronounce it i think lol

nigrofasciatum

 

[MermaidMel]

Hardest one for me I find is Thorichthys ellioti (thor ich this) but the Ellioti bit I never know if its Elli-ot or elli-ot-e? bit daft to breed a fish I cannot pronounce

Oh me too, which is it?

Chilll id? Uh that doesn't take into account the ch in the middle, and it also has an extra h at the start...


Geo, fay, jus?

In my mind, I have been saying 'geof-a-gus' is it wrong?

 

[minxfishy]

Thorichthys - Thor-ik-thee-us
Geophagus - Geo-fay-gus
Cichlid - sicklid

 

[Glenbo1981]

I had this trouble when asking about Parachromis Dovii and Tilapia Buttikoferi.

I would call the Dovii... Dovey when its Dovey-eye

And the Buttikoferi i would call butter-co-fairy (lmao when its butt-er-kof-er-eye