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Oh god not another one:
hemiptera
I thought it was "hemi pet tera"
(hemi, like the motor)
no. It's "he mip ter a"
I give up. I doubt I know how to say any of these obscure bug words.
@futurebird A botany professor of mine told us of his first oral exam at university, for which he had prepared exclusively with books. His examiner gave him an A but afterwards asked, whether he had attended any of his lectures, as he had mispronounced the word phloem (sth like Flow-éhm) as "Flöm" (one syllable, with the German letter ö, which can be written as oe, if your keyboard doesn't have an "ö") throughout the exam.
@futurebird I believe he told us this story to take away the fear of technical terms. There's no shame in not knowing how to pronounce it.
@Limnobotanik @futurebird It's quite common that the English-ified pronunciation becomes a norm though. At least in my field, physics, where there is a fair bit of German, and of course a lot of Greek letters.