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Old 07-10-2015, 03:40 AM   #1
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Default How do YOU say 'Roborovski'?

Having recently been chosen as a human servant by a little occupant of a P@H adoption tank (who shall be getting his own thread soon ), I've been wondering how to pronounce it properly...

The P@H staff called him a ROB-o-rov-ski hamster, but I always thought it was pronounced ROW-bo-rov-ski.

What's your preference? Personally I enjoy the idea of having a 'Robo' hamster, like a tiny Terminator roaming round his tank!
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Old 07-10-2015, 04:02 AM   #2
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Default Re: How do YOU say 'Roborovski'?

I've always said it like raw-bow-raw-v-skee. When I got my robos the woman in the pet store said it that way too. But I say robo like robot with the t. It's very weird and confusing
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Old 07-10-2015, 11:30 AM   #3
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I think it's ROB orovski but Robo (Rowbow) for short!
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Old 07-10-2015, 01:23 PM   #4
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Rob-o-roski
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Old 07-10-2015, 01:28 PM   #5
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Row*-buh-rov-ski

*as in 'row a boat'
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Old 07-10-2015, 01:42 PM   #6
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Default Re: How do YOU say 'Roborovski'?

I always thing of them as "robber-ovskis" but I think it's because of the fabulous 'Hamic's (hamster comics) by the lady at Nooboo Hamstery (I don't think she has made any new ones for a while tho)

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Old 07-10-2015, 02:39 PM   #7
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Default Re: How do YOU say 'Roborovski'?

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I always thing of them as "robber-ovskis" but I think it's because of the fabulous 'Hamic's (hamster comics) by the lady at Nooboo Hamstery (I don't think she has made any new ones for a while tho)

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Robber-ovskis - that's even better! I've not seen that comic before, made me laugh

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