How do the British pronounce species?
A: Both pronunciations are correct in the US and both are given, without preference, in standard American dictionaries. If you’re an American, whether you use SPEE-shees or SPEE-sees is more a matter of taste or preference than of regional variation. However, SPEE-shees is preferred in British English.
How do you speak species?
What does specie mean?
: in the same or like form or kind ready to return insult in specie also : in coin. specie.