On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:44:59 GMT, James Ross Cooke
<ucbejrc at socrates-a.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>My lecturers pronounce it:
>ESH ER ISH AH
>Im afraid i dont know the complete phoenetic dictionary though - and i cant
>get all of the strange letters on my computer.
>But everybody knows the difference between E coli and Email anyway so why dont
>you just say E coli?
Perhaps because there are other organisms, such as Entamoeba coli
(sp?) (amoebic dysentery, I believe) (and there is at least one other,
but I cannot recall it at this time) which could be also called E
coli. And, of course if you really wanted to be picky, you may wish to
tag on specific strain, such as Escherichia coli O157:H7 to designate
the specific nasty bug that has made the news lately. But this is a
little picky and off topic ;-)
