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How to Pronounce Phosphatidylcholine (and Common Misspellings)

Phosphatidylcholine: It sure is a hard word to get your tongue around!

Defined and Pro-nun-c-ia-tion by dictionary.com as:

phosphatidylcholine phos·pha·ti·dyl·cho·line (fŏs’fə-tīd’l-kō’lēn’)
n.
A phospholipid that is a major component of cellular membranesand functions in the transport
of lipoproteins in tissues.

 

Click Here to listen to Phosphatidylcholine be pronounced (needs sound!)

Here also is a Video of the well known inventor Ray Kurzweil talking about Phosphatidylcholine for another take on the pronunciation.

Common Misspellings of Phosphatidylcholine

These are various misspellings used by people when visiting this website after searching in Google for Phosphatidylcholine:

phosphatidyl choline (with a space)
phosphotillocolene
phosphotidylcholine
phosphatidylcholin
phosphotidyl choline
phocphatidylcholine
phospdatidyl choline
phosphadytyl choline
phosphatadylcholine
phosphateal choline
phosphatidinilcholine
phosphatidalcholine
phosphatidlycholine
phosphatidyl-choline
phosphatidylchoine
phosphlytidyal choline
phosphodiayl choline
phosphoditalcholine
phosphoititilcolin
phosphotidylcoline
phosphotillacolin
phosphotodylcholine
phosphtidylcholine
phosphtitlecoline
phosphytal choline
phospytalcholine

The list will keep updating as time goes on. Quite humorous are the multitude of ways we can spell Phosphatidylcholine to make it sound more like  phos-fat-idle-colin. But perhaps more telling is the indication of how reliant we are on Google now as our spell checker to the World/Internet…