• bleistift2
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    5 months ago

    “Tachypneic” is pronounced like “TA-KIP-NIK”,

    I’m clearly not qualified to lecture you, but deriving from words like pneumonia, and consulting merriam-webster, are you sure the “p” isn’t silent here, and that the “e” is?

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      5 months ago

      I can confirm that the “p” is not silent in tacypneic, unlike in pneumonia. It’s a weird one imo, but that is how it is