I know it's pronounced "bet-tuh" which is how I pronounce it in my head... but when I talk, I say "bay-tuh" as that's what it's ALWAYS called around here. I've never, ever heard someone say it differently. To me, it's just another word that can be said multiple ways, like po-tay-to, po-tah-to. Getting mad about the "wrong" pronunciation won't change the fact that almost everyone says it "wrong".
XDD It's the same at a reptile expo, so I understand. It's pretty hard knowing how to say "amelanistic", "anerythristic" "leucistic" "ultamelanistic" and so on XD Many different pronunciations. It could be "Ay-mel" "Ahm-el" "Ay-nery" "Ahn-ery" and so on and on and on xD Crazyness.
It's just when you're raised a certain way, it's pretty hard to break it D:
I always thought "bay-ta" was the right way, and just recently had to "correct" my brother, in fact. XD
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