how do you pronounce chironomidae

[Taxon]

... most of us are also mispronouncing Baetis, which should not be "bay-tiss" but "bee-tiss" or "beh-tiss", also see Callibaetis.

Right on, my friend.

[Preston Singletary]

Roger,
No matter how hard I try, I still frequently say "Bay-tiss" (and Cal-i-bay-tiss). It's hard to break a habit of so many years. There is also the problem of being misunderstood. When I was at Boeing, I worked for some years in the Engineering Liaison organization. At Boeing, the most common pronunciation of liaison is something like "lye'-a-zun", and when I would answer the phone "engineering lee-ay'-zawn" I was usually greeted by a long silence from the other end of the line while the caller processed the unfamiliar pronunciation.

[Silver Creek]

How do you say chironomidae?

C'mon guys, everyone knows that it is pronounced "No-see-um"

[Taxon]

C'mon guys, everyone knows that it is pronounced "No-see-um"

Silver Creek,

Actually, no-see-um is one of many common names for members of True Fly family Ceratopogonidae (Biting Midges), and introduces a whole new level of pronunciation challenge.