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prosopagnosia
I'm not familiar with the word, but I usually fall back on my Latin lessons to pronounce unfamiliar scientific/medical terms, in which case it's likely the a in -pag- is pronounced as a short "ah" sound, as in "father.'Bio-Hazard said:pag as in pagan? or pag like bag?
pr-osop-a-gno-s-eeeee-ahhhhh.Poncho said:p-ros-opag-n-osia
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