Thylacoleo - how to pronounce it?

[mingle]

Hi,

After listening to Chris's radio segment the other day, I wondered if there's a 'correct' way to pronounce "thylacoleo"?

I tend to go with "thylaco-leo"...

I noticed that Chris seems to favour "thyla-coleo"...

If you see what I mean?

What do others say? :-)

Cheers,

Mike.

[Ravi]

Daily lurker (gosh that sounds horrid), rare poster.

Definitely the former...

[Deleted]

Latin is not my strong point and I don't tend to seperate the latin words even though I know they mean "pouched lion" I just run it into a single word which I think is pretty much the norm.

[youcantry]

thigh-lack-o-leo

versus

thigh-la-cole-eo

I used the second. I've heard it said the first is more of an American accent. But let's face it - no-one's certain so there's probably no correct answer. I wonder what phonetics the encyclopedias attach to it?

[youcantry]

Two sites pronounce it as follows:

Thy-lac-oh-lee-oh (http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/online/thylacoleo/intro.asp)

and

thy-la-ka-LEE-oh (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/indexth.shtml)

Both similar, if slightly different - but certainly different than my pronounciation. Come to think of it - I've seen that documentary on the species and I'm fairly certain all references to it there pronounce it similarly to above.

[Thylacopardus]

I think you all have it wrong.

The C is pronounced S.

We don't call the Thylacine a Thylakeen. We pronounce it as Thyla-seen.

All wrong the C is pronouced as an S .... so say it Thyla-so-leo.

That's it.....and doesn't it sound better!!!!!!!

Forget documentaries I am Greek, I should know.... everything came from Greek history (oh except Latin it came from a type of dance).

[molloch]

Sool!

I think I'm going to use this logic to start pronounking it Kinema and Kirkular.

Now, off for a nice drink of soffee.