Petri dish pronunciation

[TNT]

What's people's thoughts on Zoology

I'm a big proponent of Zo-ology
Got to be either that or Zoo-logy

Zoo-ology would need three Os but seems to bee the most popular pronunciation, Zooology!?

Yep, my pronunciation has 3 'O's

 

[DrSheldonCooper]

Let's have your thoughts on Sulfate and Sulfur spelling ugggh! I cannot bring myself to label bottles like this.

I literally HATE that!

 

[Deleted member 32724]

I literally HATE that!

Next, we will all have to say Aloo-min-um

 

[amateur alchemist]

I'm from Nottingham, so I'll always be lazy in my pronunciation
It's Peh - treh - My mouth now looks very odd as I try and spell, what I think I'm saying??? - hope no-ones looking.

Four - god of thunder.

 

[Paul]

Next, we will all have to say Aloo-min-um

No they lost on that one.

 

[Fleur]

Don't!
But I am curious, I can't see how you could pronounce it...
My friends was Vegetables. The way she said it made me never want to eat veg again in my life...shudder.

The same way I'd say lair but with a fraction more a!

 

[LabJohn]

I had always thought "Pee-tri" was an Americanism pronunciation

 

[LabJohn]

According to this guy it's either "Pet-ri Desh" or "Peet-ri Desh"

 

[Puds]

What's people's thoughts on Zoology

I'm a big proponent of Zo-ology
Got to be either that or Zoo-logy

Zoo-ology would need three Os but seems to bee the most popular pronunciation, Zooology!?

We were only saying this at home the other day!
Always thought that was a weird one.

 

[Baldilocks]

My wife, who's from the wrong side of the Pennines, says tong instead of tung for tongue.

 

[ClaireL]

My wife, who's from the wrong side of the Pennines, says tong instead of tung for tongue.

Thats probably why one of my teachers cannot tell/spell the difference between them...

 

[amateur alchemist]

My wife, who's from the wrong side of the Pennines, says tong instead of tung for tongue.

It is tong

 

[TNT]

Thank goodness no ones brought up car stle and barf

 

[karen b]

My wife, who's from the wrong side of the Pennines, says tong instead of tung for tongue.

So do I. It is a family surname as well, so I figure I say it correctly


where do we stand on aitch/haitch? I witnessed a major bust up and flounce off on a message board years ago over this matter

 

[Snailo]

Well its aitch, but life is too short to get annoyed by the haitch-ers out there.

Have/of pains me though. 'I could of done that'. No, no, no, no, no, no.

 

[Alman]

Forget perti dish call 'em agar plates and call it a day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[TechNewham]

"Jigawatts..."

The wonders of a Hollywood film asking an expert who lived in the only neighbourhood on the planet that pronounced it that way...

 

[David Sait]

It will be spelt with an F in exams so we should be using it. Plus the RSC use F

Yes, we use 'sulfur' as this is what was agreed by IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists). The change was apparently originally proposed in 1992.

 

[David Sait]

Seems RSc are undecided also

Oh no, our house style, following IUPAC, is definitely sulfur. There is old content around our various websites that has yet to be updated. The particular link you shared is on the list as part of our wider ongoing content improvement work, due to be looked at in the next few weeks. But I've fixed the spelling on it just now

 

[Mirage]

Oh no, our house style, following IUPAC, is definitely sulfur. There is old content around our various websites that has yet to be updated. The particular link you shared is on the list as part of our wider ongoing content improvement work, due to be looked at in the next few weeks. But I've fixed the spelling on it just now

ye gods...whatever next...fosforus