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xmush said:
Tom Volk's fungus website is great, and there is a little sound file on each of the fungi of the month posts where he pronounces the mushroom.
http://tomvolkfungi.net/

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xmush said:
I once took a mycology seminar and the mycology professor pronounced psilocybe: sill-oss-ih-bee with most of the accent on the second syllable.

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Falcon also pronounces it that way. He learned it from a mycologist.
I studied Latin for three semesters in seminary, and to be honest, hearing that bastardization of the language is like hearing finger nail on a chalk board.   

Latin is a phonetic language that is very easy to pronounce if you learn a few simple rules. For example, the accent is always on the second to last syllable, and  "o" is always pronounced long as in "slow". The problem with pronunciation arises because science majors are not required to take even a single course in Latin, so they Americanize the pronunciation and errors are passed on when students become teachers.

But as ToxicMan noted, as long as we are able to communicate with each other, then the language is serving its purpose.  When falcon says sill-oss-ih-bee, I know what he is talking about, so it is a functional pronunciation. The fact that he knows more about mycology than me makes my complaint against his pronunciation seem trivial.

Never the less, I will continue to pronounce and teach the names of mushrooms using the correct pronunciation, to the best of my limited ability.