I was talking with a Montana licensed physician today regarding medical cannabis and had said the word "trichome", we all know what trichomes are and that they are not only relevant to cannabis as they exist through out botany. Well when I pronounced it, he was taken back and didn't quite understand what I had said and thought I had mispronounced it. I had told him that for the longest time I pronounced it tri-chome and sometimes even tri-chrome, adding the erroneous 'r', but a while back had discovered on reference.com that I was mispronouncing it and that it was actually pronounced trik-ohm. The doctor went to the website and listened to it being annunciated online and was pleasantly surprised and appreciative for the knowledge.

An interesting point about anything cannabis related, if you don't educate yourself, you'll end up knowing nothing or nothing but grapevine perception.

Check it out yourself.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trichome

Load the web page from the link above, then click the gray speaker icon next to the word as shown in the image below. It will highlight blue when you mouse over/click it.
*Make sure your speakers are turned on*