How to pronounce “bacilli” in English

He insisted on dropping all apostrophes and so wrote "can't" and "he's" without apostrophes-- like that because, he said, there is no--"not the faintest reason for persisting in the ugly and silly trick of peppering pages with these uncouth bacilli."Lewis Carroll, on the other hand, was a big fan of apostrophes and insisted that the only correct spelling of shan't and can't was,