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how do you pronounce fissiparous?
Marj Started conversation Sep 15, 2003
well
How do you pronounce fissiparous then?
how do you pronounce fissiparous?
Marj Posted Sep 15, 2003
thank you kindly
hopefully now my other half will look slightly less foolish when he reads it out (though maybe he deserved for using long words)
I was tempted by the other suggestion we had, something like fishychiparous
I think the people listening are all theologians not biologists, so they probably won't know any better . . .
how do you pronounce fissiparous?
Baconlefeets Posted Sep 15, 2003
damn, you mean i've been pronouncing it wrong all these years?! i must look a right fool!
how do you pronounce fissiparous?
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Sep 15, 2003
You could also put the stress on the second syllable, in which case it would be fiss-IPP-ur-us
how do you pronounce fissiparous?
Teuchter Posted Sep 21, 2003
Say anything with enough confidence and people think you're right and they're wrong 
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how do you pronounce fissiparous?
Mergatroyd McGlubb...incompetently lurking Posted Sep 21, 2003
I thought it was pronounced exactly the way it is spelled! 
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