June 2021 - POTM Contest - Vote now!

[Deadeye]

Gonna sound pretty dumb but how do you actually pronounce bichir

I say it like beaker, pretty sure the correct pronunciation is busheer.

 

[Rtc/tsn]

I say it like beaker, pretty sure the correct pronunciation is busheer.

I’ve always said it like Beecher and my mom always yells at me cause she thinks I’m saying something else

 

[deeda]

Lots of great photos, hard to choose just one but Voted!

 

[Caveden]

Can recognise the familiar rtc/tsn pic I've seen it so many times lol

 

[fishguy1978]

Gonna sound pretty dumb but how do you actually pronounce bichir

Some say "biker" others say "bischer" with either a shoft i or I.

 

[Hybridfish7]

I say it like bisheer when it comes to it but I usually just refer to them as polypterus
When I was little and saw them on liveaquaria and all for the first time I used to try not to talk about them because I thought the name was pronounced "b*tcher"

 

[Rtc/tsn]

I say it like bisheer when it comes to it but I usually just refer to them as polypterus
When I was little and saw them on liveaquaria and all for the first time I used to try not to talk about them because I thought the name was pronounced "b*tcher"

That’s how I pronounce it almost like b*tcher and my mom hates me for it ?

 

[Rtc/tsn]

Can recognise the familiar rtc/tsn pic I've seen it so many times lol

? I just wanted to put him out there a bit more now that I don’t own him anymore. Just paying my respects and trying to show him off to world. Such a gorgeous fish wish absolutely gorgeous markings it would be a shame to hide him from the world

 

[Niki_up]

Holy, this is a tough one this time….gonna need a minute to look and really decide

 

[deeda]

Rtc/tsn

It's Buh-sheer.

The name was an Arabic dialect of spiny fish which live in the Nile river (Abushir). During Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, one of his naturalist who 'discovered' them, used the local dialect Bushir and gave them the French spelling 'Bichir'. That 'ch' makes a 'sh' sound, not a 'kuh' sound. Because it's not a common name people easily mistake it. Google also does a horrible job at giving you the right answer too, but most results on Google won't even give you the right species when you search them, online is filled with misinformation.

Gonna sound pretty dumb but how do you actually pronounce bichir