How do "U" say it?

[Linds]

How do you say colubrid? I originally said it call-uh-brid, but the more breeders and keepers I spoke to, the more I realized I was the only one saying it that way, and everyone else was saying it cuh-loo-brid... so figured that was the way it was, been saying it that way most of the time, except I still sometimes bust out the original way. About a year ago I started also saying call-you-brid, but whenever I would say that people would give me a strange look....lol :p How do you say it? Does anyone know the actual correct way to pronounce the word? Is there are pronunciation key for herp words? I would think this would be especially useful for the latin names :cool:

[marisa]

I say cuh-loo-brid mostly, sometimes I say call-you-brid. When I hear it said on TV by herpotologists they say cuh-loo-brid.

Check this out
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=colubrid

Marisa

[Tim_Cranwill]

I'm pretty sure I say it the worng way because all of the experts say cuh-loo-brid but my first impression was call-you-brid. :)

[emroul]

I say it cuh-loo-brid... that's how I learned it, too. :)

[stevesemerko]

I say it cuh-loo-brid too. I just assumed that was the way it was supposed to be pronounced cause everyone I knew said it that way. The only time I heard it pronounced call-you-brid was when i heard the crocodile hunter say it.

Steve

[Simon]

yeah I say cuh-loo-brid too...thats how I heard it at the first place...and that's what I though too...

[Invictus]

I think I'm one of the few who still says call-uh-brid.

[reverendsterlin]

caw-lew-brid *shrug*

[J-Man]

cuh-LOO-brid

[UpscaleBoas]

common people...where canadians....we say lots of words different...lets not change...call-you-brid --can distict us has canadian reptile enthusiast.

[Invictus]

According to the dictionary, it's pronounced call-uh-brid.

I did a bit of research for the pronunciation rules. My gawd, they're complicated. Anyway, here's a website that shows the prounciation, AND even has an audio for proper pronunciation:

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entries/39/c0493900.html

Here's all the complicated rules, but if you search the page for the word Colubrid, it explains why the emphasis is on the first syllable, which contradicts one of the rules:

http://www.saltspring.com/capewest/pron.htm

So there ya go. :)

[UpscaleBoas]

invictus...wow...did you do your homework....lol......thats awsome....

[JaredAren]

Check out these sites. If you click on the little speaker icon by the pronunciation it will download a man speaking the word. The two dictionaries pronounce it differently.

dictionary 1 (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=colubrid)

link 2 (http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/C0493900.html)

[Lisa]

I always say coll loo brid... but there's tonnes of lisasms out there.

[Kyle Walkinshaw]

I first thought it was call-you-brid when i first learned the word and always said it like that until i started hearing it called cuh-loo-brid which got me a little confused and i just said both but now I usually just say call-you-brid..

[Weather1]

col-brid

[TheRedDragon]

I've always said call-uh-brid. :)

[JD@reptiles]

its just what you are comfortable with. i say call-loo-brid and call-you-brid.

[Kurzix]

how about non-boids lol

[Emily-Fisher]

I say Caw-loo-brid...

[C.m.pyrrhus]

call-loo-brid....coh-loo-brid. I use both.

What about elapid? I use E-lap-id, I know some who use L-uh-pid....

Crotalus? Crow-tall-us...crow-tuh-lus......?
Also the ending ae (As in Colubridae) ...pronounce it as ay..or as ee..?

[JD@reptiles]

cro-tell-us. ee-lap-id. and the ending is ay.

[reptilesalonica]

If the estimate of a Greek guy is acceptable, then...i call it call-uh-brid.
If i were a mad farmer and my old Cow, finaly just had a newborn, i would say Cow-U-breed!!!
If i didn't knew how to breed snakes i would say "How-U-breed...etc" :D :D
~Greg~