Comments on: Microcosm: Ars Technica feature, and more podcasts http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/11/microcosm-ars-technica-feature-and-more-podcasts/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: John Monfries http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/11/microcosm-ars-technica-feature-and-more-podcasts/#comment-7736 John Monfries Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:10:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/11/microcosm-ars-technica-feature-and-more-podcasts/#comment-7736 In all this discussion of e coli, I still have seen no explanation of the normal pronunciation of the weirdly spelt main term involved. (Scientists aren't the only specialists who fail to do this, but it happens more often in their field that the pronunciation is hard to predict.) So what is it? esher-ish-eeya; or eskeriskia? Coal-ee, or coal- I? Or do Americans pronounce it one way, Brits another and Australians still another, a further common pattern? [quick - duck for cover] In all this discussion of e coli, I still have seen no explanation of the normal pronunciation of the weirdly spelt main term involved. (Scientists aren’t the only specialists who fail to do this, but it happens more often in their field that the pronunciation is hard to predict.)

So what is it? esher-ish-eeya; or eskeriskia? Coal-ee, or coal- I?

Or do Americans pronounce it one way, Brits another and Australians still another, a further common pattern? [quick - duck for cover]

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