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Pronunciation of drug names

Started by Brenda E, July 26, 2014, 06:52:19 PM

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Brenda E

What's the consensus on how to say the following drug names?

Estradiol
Spironolactone
Finisteride

The way I say them is this:

Ess-trah-dial
Spi-ro-no-lac-tone (with the 'i' pronounced as in the word 'ink')
Fi-na-ster-ide

Thoughts?
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Ms Grace

I say them the Aussie way (ie, the right way)

Estra-dil
Spiro
That hair growth drug
Grace
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Transition 1.0 (Julie): HRT 1989-91
Self-denial: 1991-2013
Transition 2.0 (Grace): HRT June 24 2013
Full-time: March 24, 2014 :D
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Chloevixen

Quote from: Ms Grace on July 26, 2014, 06:55:51 PM
I say them the Aussie way (ie, the right way)

Estra-dil
Spiro
That hair growth drug

I like that.
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Miss_Bungle1991

I suggested that Finasteride be labeled "Extreme Depression & Suicidal Thoughts In a Pill". but no one thought that was a good idea. I hated that stupid drug and what it did to me. I needed that about as much as I needed 1000 bee stings at once.
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immortal gypsy

E'
Spiro'
Hair growth drug

Like any good Australian it's shorten to one or two syllables max. Or described by what it does
Do not fear those who have nothing left to lose, fear those who are prepared to lose it all

Si vis bellum, parra pacem
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Lonicera

I apologise if what I've written isn't a very good guide to my usage but I got sick of the phonetic alphabet when endlessly transcribing in college so I hope you can forgive me for not using it. I'm also probably very far from the consensus because I rarely could manage chemical pronunciation in my classes.  :P

Anyhoo:

Est-rad-eye-ol (sometimes East-rad-eye-ol due to Oestrogen)
Spi-ron-O-lac-tone.
Fin-aster-eye-d
"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood, where the straight way was lost. It is a hard thing to speak of, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood was, so that thinking of it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death: but, in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there." - Dante Alighieri
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