how do you pronounce chironomidae

[Steve Molcsan]

So far some have been close, but not quite (although I may have missed one):
Its "Ky row naw mi day". Trust me on this. I sort of do biology for a living. The click on the speaker thing was hilariously off.

Your closer but naw really??, I do believe it's [I]ee day[/I]

but don't trust me on this, as I am only an amateur


but I do love this stuff!

Steve

[darrell]

How about ............ teeny-tiny worm (werm)

[crazy4oldcars]

That's fine but what Genus?

Skeeter!!

Kirk

[mr. blur]

geronimo.

I say kuh-ron-a-mid and I'm prolly wrong.

[darrell]

Steve - I could be wrong, but I believe it's of the genus Itsius-bitsius from the Punyalldayaday Family


darrell,
Kir-aw-nuh-mi-day

[Sonny Edmonds]

Ridiculous.
I'm gonna go back to tying some bugs.

[Preston Singletary]

Part of the problem, of course, is that American pronunciation of Latin words follows the British model, which is gibberish to most Europeans. You'll hear congressmen adjourning "sine die", and pronouncing it "sign-ee die" when the correct (European) pronunciation is "seen-ay dee-ay".

Chironomidae: Key-row-nome'-ih-dee, with the accent on "nome". According to my dictionary, the "ae" combination may be pronounced either "ee" or "eh" which, of course means that most of us are also mispronouncing Baetis, which should not be "bay-tiss" but "bee-tiss" or "beh-tiss", also see Callibaetis.

[jeffnles1]

I think someone already said this. I think it's pronounced, "Midge".

Jeff

[Steve Molcsan]

Poe-ta-toe...

[ducksterman]

Poe-ta-toe...

Spud......