The CDC has been using wastewater sampling for community penetration studies since we lack the testing ability to do the usual form of PH community testing.
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I'm still chuckling over that.
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Do you think they pronounce it phonetically or with affectation?
I would wager three things:
In small groups they pronounce it in an affected manner.
In formal meeting sessions, they try hard to keep a more professional demeanor, but they don’t always succeed.
The executives listen to the mistakes impassively; they laugh about it later with their peers over drinks.
The one I learned about in college was a helical protein (with similarities to actin) on the tip of a sperm cell that controlled the head’s ability to enter the ovum. The discoverers wanted to call it “screwin” but were told No. It ended up being called profil-actin.
In drug discovery, my first boss told us of a candidate 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor (target: psoriasis) that needed an official name for clinical studies. Since it contained a chloronaphthalene, and 5-LOIs ended in “olac”, the name clonapolac was suggested, with emphasis on syllables two and four. Then the boss pronounced it with emphasis on syllables one and three, accompanied by the Ph. D. Laugh, straight face but mirthful eyes, “you can see why that didn’t last”. They broke with the pattern and named the molecule lonapalene.
My dad (doctor of electrical engineering) often used the Ph. D. Laugh at home, especially when he tutored our high school class in math.
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There's also some black bananas begging to be made into bread, lol...
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